Blind Wiki vs MobaLink

Unveiling the Unseen BlindWiki is a location-based audio network where citizens who are blind or partially sighted use smartphones to share their findings by posting sound recordings. The platform does not just contain information about difficulties and barriers but is also a repository for experiences, opinions and stories, generating a creative and collaborative cartography of the unseen. BlindWiki app The mobile app allows contributors to record site-specific audio and immediately post it to the BlindWiki platform. Participants can move through their city while posting and receiving geolocated audio descriptions, stories, obstacles or chronicles, previously contributed through the app. Remote interaction Participants travelling to other cities can benefit from the local maps and contribute their own recordings. Communication can be stablished in advance so visitors are able to engage the local community, facilitating the interaction between locals and guests. Social awareness BlindWiki offers an international platform where participants have the opportunity to share, analyse, discuss and compare the accessibility of their home towns, and to lobby for more or improved way-finding facilities. The project aims to raise social awareness about the urban landscape as perceived by people with vision impairment or loss.

This app is in French. Everything you read and write in it is French, and so is the community behind it. MobaLink is a mutual aid network for people living with a disability in France, along with their parents, carers and relatives. You post the problem nobody around you has faced, and people who have lived it answer. WHAT IT IS FOR Asking about disability paperwork, adapted transport, schooling, accessible places, and everyday life in France. Answers come from people who solved the same thing, not from a helpdesk. PLAN AHEAD, BEFORE YOU TRAVEL Check the accessibility details of listed venues without having to go there first. For many public buildings and schools, the information comes from on-site surveys: up to 29 accessibility criteria per record, photos with screen reader descriptions, the French public accessibility register, and a link to Acceslibre, the government platform. Enough to plan a trip around what you actually need. Venues are currently listed across parts of four French departments: Gironde, Yonne, Meurthe-et-Moselle and Pyrenees-Atlantiques. Coverage is partial and growing. BUILT TO BE USABLE Full screen reader support, text that grows to the largest system sizes, contrast measured colour by colour, and a true black dark mode. NO ADS, NO ALGORITHM The feed is chronological. Nothing is sponsored, nothing is suggested. Reports are read by real moderators. BEFORE YOU INSTALL The interface is French only. A verified email account is required to read and to write. Sign-up is open from age fifteen. There is no map and no geolocation. Free, no ads, no in-app purchases.