Introducing Collegic Nav for iOS; your personal tour guide to college campuses

By Collegic nav, 14 March, 2016

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iOS and iPadOS

Collegic Nav gives students an easy and safe way to navigate around college campuses.

Never get lost around your college campus again! Collegic Nav allows students, staff, parents and friends to safely navigate around college campuses.
It's a friendly mobile application that allows users to receive directions from their current location to their desired destination, even destinations located on multiple campuses.
Multiple features include a search button with campuses names and provides the distance and estimated time of arrival. The pathway will highlight your travel route and food icons to restaurants,
and coffee shops with hours of operation along your way.
Travel often to certain destinations? Collegic Nav stores multiple locations for frequent use. Included along with the destination is a complete detail description of the location.
Additional benefits includes a blue light phone box locator, it's a safeguard feature for extra protection that shows nearby blue light phone box locations.
Collegic Nav is a valuable mobile application that's convenient and easy to use. It’s easy to download from the Apple or the Play store on your phone. Never be late to class or a test again !

For more information call Maria at 732-757-7929, email her at collegicnav@gmail.com or visit the website: collegicnav.com.
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By AppleVis on Friday, March 25, 2016 - 23:47

Member of the AppleVis Editorial Team

Hello Maria and welcome to AppleVis.

Can we assume that because you have posted information about this app here that it has full support for VoiceOver? If so, it would be useful to state this in your original post.

If the app is currently not fully accessible with VoiceOver, do you have a timeframe for when this will be corrected?

Thanks,
The AppleVis Editorial Team

By Sean Terry on Friday, March 25, 2016 - 23:47

Hi, This app doesn't seem to be in the US App Store. I searched for it using the spelling in the main post and couldn't find it.

Good Afternoon:

It will hit the apple store on Thur. If you check out the site it tells you what school will Launch first and the schools that are being worked on. If you are at a College and would like this app for your school, please let me know and we will work on it.

By Collegic nav on Friday, March 25, 2016 - 23:47

Thank you for reaching out to me. There is no typing in the Application, I hope that helps. If you have any other questions please let me know.
Thank you,

By AppleVis on Friday, March 25, 2016 - 23:47

Member of the AppleVis Editorial Team

Maria,

Based upon your reply to our question about whether the app supported VoiceOver, it seems safe to assume that you are unaware of what VoiceOver is and why it matters so much to the users of this website.

The short explanation is that VoiceOver is a gesture-based screen reader that’s baked right in to iOS and which makes iOS and apps usable for those of us who can’t see what’s on the screen.

This Apple support page provides more information about VoiceOver and the other accessibility features which are available in iOS: http://www.apple.com/accessibility/ios/

From that page:

VoiceOver is a revolutionary screen reader that lets you know what’s happening on your Multi-Touch screen — and helps you navigate it — even if you can’t see it. Touch the screen to hear what’s under your finger, then use gestures to control your device. VoiceOver works with the apps that come with your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.

To experience this in action, simply press the Home button on an iOS device 3 times in quick succession (this assumes that the accessibility settings are still set to their default on the device).

This will give you an opportunity to see how well you app currently works with VoiceOver.

This page offers some good tips and advice on how to test the accessibility of your app: https://patstapestry.wordpress.com/2013/05/24/tips-for-accessibility-testing-of-ios-apps/

And this Apple Developer page provides information on how to develop accessible apps: https://developer.apple.com/accessibility/ios/

The good news is that even though you may not be familiar with VoiceOver, it’s possible that if your developers have followed some basic good practice and Apple’s guidelines, that your app may already work well with VoiceOver.

If there are any specific questions that you or your developers have about ensuring that your app does offer fair and equal access to all of its possible users, then do please ask, as we will have lots of people in our community who could make use of your app.