Overview
Audiom from XR Navigation is the first digital map viewer everyone can use. It is an Experience Builder widget and can connect to any published feature layer. You can view and create maps in Audiom visually, auditorily, and through text on any platform. You can access Audiom through headphones, a screen, and or a braille display. This means totally blind people can independently view and draw dynamic maps and diagrams completely through audio, for example. ESRI map viewer is inaccessible to low literacy, blind, low vision, mobility impaired, and many other disabled users, which is against the law. Blind screen reader users only hear “blank”, for example. Turn-by-turn directions, tables, or other kinds of alternative text remove the spatial information that makes a map a map. Audiom is added as a tab in experience builder and is powered by the same data powering the ESRI map viewer. Audiom is ADA Title II, AODA, ACA, EAA, 508, 504, ADA, and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) AAA compliant. It can bring this compliance to any existing visual only map. Audiom shows maps for data analytics (thematic) and navigation maps (referential). Audiom has been used for showing referential maps like campuses, exhibit halls, airplane seat maps, and buildings. It has also shown thematic maps like geological, zoning, population, eclipse, and disease maps. Here a map at: https://xrnavigation.io Completed VPAT: https://xrnavigation.io/acr