computer vision (cerco), and two industrial partners are active in artificial vision (spikenet technology) and in pedestrian geolocalisation (navocap). the last member of the consortium is an educational research center for the visually impaired (cesdv – ija, institute of blind youth). tania tania is a project founded at the university of stuttgart, germany. the hardware is based on gps and rfid. it allows navigation for blind and deafblind persons with step accuracy. it only works where special maps have been created for the system. wayfinder access wayfinder access was a gps solution from the swedish company wayfinder systems ab. this application for symbian phones was designed especially to work with screen readers, such as mobile speak from code factory or talks from nuance communications and offers text-to-speech technology. it is able to take the special needs of the blind and visually impaired into consideration. symbian screen reader software offers more than just the reading of the application's screens, but also supports braille devices. highlights of wayfinder access include, but are not limited to: information provided for both pedestrian and vehicular navigation. a database of 20 million points of interest. online maps that are regularly updated. the "where am i?" feature that readily gives information about your current location. the "what is in my surrounding?" feature that initiates a scan of the immediate area to inform you of street names, intersections and nearby points of interest such as restaurants, banks, and much more. the new "vicinity view" feature that allows you to hear audible references for an area with a scope that you can later adjust based on the radius of the scanned vicinity. feedback on points of interest (poi), crossings or favorites that can be restricted, prioritized, and presented according to their distance from your location. the wayfinder access service was shut down in 2011 after the company was taken over by vodafone.