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

Wayfinding technology is intended to help partially sighted and disabled fans to better access live sports

“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.”