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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Robert Booth UK technology editor

‘Amazing for blind people’: app helps cricket fan find way around Lord’s

Cricketer Moshfique Ahmed, who lost most of his sight in 2017, walks along the concourse of Lord's cricket ground with a phone containing the Waymap GPS app in his left hand. He is wearing a purple cricket kit and black cap, and is about to walk past a cricket fan in a wheelchair. More cricket fans are visible seated in the background
Cricketer Moshfiique Ahmed, one of the first to try a new GPS app designed to help sight-impaired users navigate venues Photograph: Sean Smith/The Guardian

“In 19ft turn slightly left,” said a robotic voice from the iPhone in Moshfique Ahmed’s hand as he tried to find a seat at Lord’s cricket ground in London.

“Take the stairs,” it said as Ahmed, an England visually impaired cricketer, tapped his white cane on his way towards the Edrich stand without any other assistance. “There is one landing. Turn to nine o’clock at the bottom of the stairs. You have arrived at row five.”

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