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• Getting There: What Accessibility Research Reveals About Navigation and Wayfinding

  Bob Dodd — 2026-03-18

  Moving through the world — indoors, outdoors, in transit, and online — remains one of the deepest accessibility challenges. This article examines what researchers have found across 64 papers on navigation technology ecosystems, the broken state of urban infrastructure data, the persistent indoor navigation gap, museums as testing grounds for multisensory access, wheelchair users information needs, the social nature of navigation, and why context determines everything.

  • navigation
  • wayfinding
  • indoor navigation
  • urban accessibility
  • orientation and mobility
  • pedestrian safety
  • wheelchair accessibility
  • museum accessibility
  • public transit
  • built environment
  • computer vision
  • crowdsourcing
  • haptic feedback
  • assistive technology
  • Global South