How to Read a WayTag: Read an Accessible NFC tag with an iPhone
Channel: WayAround
Date: 21/06/2019

Use the WayAround - Tag and Scan app to read a WayTag with an iPhone.

This assistive technology is great for anyone with any type of visual impairment, including blindness, low vision, color blindness, and deafblind. It's also useful for sighted people.

It's really easy to read a WayTag with these step-by-step instructions using VoiceOver and the native NFC reader in your iPhone. This demonstration uses an iPhone 7.

The first thing you need to know is where the NFC reader is located on your phone. If you have an iPhone 7 or above, the NFC reader is along the top edge of the phone. It's not the front face or the back face, but the skinny edge at the top. It has nothing to do with the camera! You'll simply want to touch that top skinny edge to a WayTag.

If you have a visual impairment, WayAround works with whatever accessibility settings you have on your phone, whether that's high contrast, inverted colors, bold text, or a larger font size. WayAround is a really great experience using a screen reader like VoiceOver, and that's what I use for this demo.

First, open up the WayAround - Tag and Scan app. Links below for the free app.

There are two buttons, read and create. Tap the read button. On the iPhone, when you press the read button, you'll get a Ready to Scan dialogue. Once you see that Ready to Scan screen, that's when you touch the NFC reader on your phone to the WayTag. It takes just a split second. As soon as you make contact between your phone and the WayTag, the information transfers. The iPhone will chime and vibrate, and will display on the screen. If VoiceOver is turned on, you'll hear the WayTag read aloud.

There's also MORE information. If you swipe right with VoiceOver, you'll hear the additional information. That's all there is to reading a WayTag!

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Get the WayAround - Tag and Scan app for iPhone: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wayaround-tag-and-scan/id1294361140
Get the WayAround - Tag and Scan app for Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wayaround.wayaround

Helpful resources on WayAround.com
User Guide: https://www.wayaround.com/app/
Buy WayTag Products: https://www.wayaround.com/shop/