Testimonials
Here is a sampling of testimonials from travelers who have used ClickAndGo Wayfinding Maps. We welcome testimonials and invite you to send yours to info@clickandgomaps.com.
"I am totally blind and I travel all over the world. I've been to 20 countries, 47 states, and five Canadian Provinces, and in doing that I use every type of transportation imaginable. In traveling to unfamiliar destinations, I must rely on sighted people. There is always a kind of relay where you are passed off from person to person in meet and assist situations and when I get to where I'm going I might double check that I'm in the right place just to be sure. I have learned patience and to build in time for what I hear often: 'Sorry sir, no one is here to escort you right now.'
I got to try Click And Go at the CSun Conference and it was fantastic. With the system, I felt comfortable going to unfamiliar places without a great deal of knowledge about the layout. I could go from a point in the conference center to any other point I wanted to go with little or no assistance from those around me, and this works whether you are a cane user or a dog user.
There are so many applications for Click And Go. A frequent flyer, I am at the airport twice a month but go to the same gate maybe twice a year
and it's not worth the time to memorize the routes. With Click And Go, I could explore the airport virtually on the website and when I got there
I could select a starting and ending point and just follow the bouncing ball so to speak with the easy to follow directions.
I'll be visiting a friend in the hospital and I don't dare venture there without a sighted friend because otherwise I will spend
my entire day getting lost in those halls. It would be great to be able to use Click And Go there, too. Click And Go would also increase
the likelihood that I would do something spontaneous. I really like Click And Go. This system really promotes independent travel."
--Brian Charlson, Director, Computer Training Services, Carroll Center for the Blind, Newton Massachusetts.
"I went to the ATIA Conference in Chicago for the first time and discovered Click And Go on the site. I had never been to that hotel before and I was able to use Click And Go to go anywhere I wanted. It was so easy! I used it the way I use our GPS system when I travel, but that is for the outside. Inside, I used the Click And Go to navigate around the hotel and familiarize myself with it and it was really, really easy. It told which wall to trail and gave audible cues. I absolutely loved it.
I had never been to the Chicago Hotel before and I made text files of the Click And Go directions that I could carry in my note taker so I could call them up and use them anytime. When I went out, I didn't always come in the same entrance, so when a taxi dropped me off, I called up that entrance on my text files and easily got to where I needed to go. It is an outstanding system. I am super impressed."
--Gil Lutz, tech support, product development and training for the Sendero Group, the GPS company - developers of the first accessible GPS and talking map software for blind travelers, including the Trekker and the Breeze
"Traveling with Click And Go maps offers the blind traveler the directions they always dreamed of and never got from sighted assistance.
Click And Go maps show the blind traveler where they are going and what they will encounter ahead of time in unfamiliar locations. It's the same as a sighted person obtaining a map or brochures of a hotel so they can see where the pool is or where the work out room is. With Click And Go the blind person has the same advantage. You could go to Click And Go website, click on a zip file, download the maps, and there you go. What my GPS does for me outdoors, Click And Go does for me inside.
The best thing is probably the cues that are specific to what a blind person would pay attention to such as, the floor will slope or you will move from carpet to tile or sound cues like you will hear a fountain on the right. Those are golden clues to someone who can't see. Those are the things that help you know if you are on the right path.
I think it is awesome."
--Dawn Wilkinson, technology consultant and teacher of the visually impaired at Easter Seals Arkansas