Very nice, but needs important fixes
I love using waytags—very fast and convenient. The app usually works pretty well, although I wish they would make the date pickers more accessibility friendly. Maybe with separate month, day, year selectors, instead of the large calendar view that doesn’t even open if you tap on a date.
The biggest problem though, is the Waycloud syncing. When you first open the app, it takes between 20 45 seconds to connect to their cloud. The app doesn’t bother to beep or otherwise indicate that it is not connected, or let you know when it has connected, you just have to keep checking the graphical indicator Manually (if you are using the screen reader, as most people are, you can’t just glance at it until it changes).
The issue with this, is that if you scan a tag, especially if you create a new tag, before it has connected, The contents of that tag may change after it reaches out to the cloud. So through trial and error, and having several tags that I know were correct originally, become incorrect later, I have learned that the only way for the app to be reliable is to wait until it has the cloud connection. So it would be much more useful if they would block out app usage until the cloud is connected, or at least give you some audible indicator that they are trying to connect to the cloud and you’ll just have to be patient until they do. Otherwise the app becomes unreliable and Even the opposite of useful, because tags get erroneous information.
The biggest problem though, is the Waycloud syncing. When you first open the app, it takes between 20 45 seconds to connect to their cloud. The app doesn’t bother to beep or otherwise indicate that it is not connected, or let you know when it has connected, you just have to keep checking the graphical indicator Manually (if you are using the screen reader, as most people are, you can’t just glance at it until it changes).
The issue with this, is that if you scan a tag, especially if you create a new tag, before it has connected, The contents of that tag may change after it reaches out to the cloud. So through trial and error, and having several tags that I know were correct originally, become incorrect later, I have learned that the only way for the app to be reliable is to wait until it has the cloud connection. So it would be much more useful if they would block out app usage until the cloud is connected, or at least give you some audible indicator that they are trying to connect to the cloud and you’ll just have to be patient until they do. Otherwise the app becomes unreliable and Even the opposite of useful, because tags get erroneous information.
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WayAround is the only labeling system I use and it makes my world completely accessible. Love it!
Tanya
Create waytag screen is blank for me!
When I tap to create the screen is blank and there’s no where to type
Way tags #1
way to go with the best & easiest way to label every thing
Great accessibility tool at an unreasonable price
I have used the WayAround app with way tags to test the technology and although I’ve been on the fence about buying some for myself, the hold back has always been the steep price of their tags. NFC technology is some of the simplest, and cheapest technology out there. All it needs is a basic app that is able to use the tech already within phones in order to read them. WayArounds app is decent, it has no bells or whistles though and still to this day there is no way for individuals to make tag information publicly accessible. The one thing that sets it apart is that it is fully accessible but the app hasn’t had any major updates and wouldn’t require a heck of a lot of maintenance. In my mind, there’s nothing that justifies to me why their tags are so outrageously overpriced. So I haven’t purchased them myself.
What I did try and do though was to buy some cheap nfc tags to see if the app would read them. Although the tags did scan (of course they would because their nfc), the app was clearly programmed to only accept their tags and just produced an error. This is unfortunate considering most other nfc reading apps on the market are free and work with most all nfc tags. I’m quite sick of my quality of life and independence being held within the tight grasp of capitalist company’s who will only give it up at high high cost. I don’t see why this company couldn’t have created an option whereby If people wanted to use their own tags, than they buy the app instead, except that doesn’t fit within a capitalist mindset of continuing to make more and more money off of people. People who unfortunately have some of the lowest employment and income rates.
If you use our lives, experiences and existence as your companies selling tactics but then fail to consider our needs and make your technology financially inaccessible to us, you are simply just using us for profit. Period.
What I did try and do though was to buy some cheap nfc tags to see if the app would read them. Although the tags did scan (of course they would because their nfc), the app was clearly programmed to only accept their tags and just produced an error. This is unfortunate considering most other nfc reading apps on the market are free and work with most all nfc tags. I’m quite sick of my quality of life and independence being held within the tight grasp of capitalist company’s who will only give it up at high high cost. I don’t see why this company couldn’t have created an option whereby If people wanted to use their own tags, than they buy the app instead, except that doesn’t fit within a capitalist mindset of continuing to make more and more money off of people. People who unfortunately have some of the lowest employment and income rates.
If you use our lives, experiences and existence as your companies selling tactics but then fail to consider our needs and make your technology financially inaccessible to us, you are simply just using us for profit. Period.
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