UN partners with Google to create a phone which is easy for blind people to navigate their smart phones

Wayfindr is being tested around the world, and permanent installations might be just around the corner.

Subjects ranged from dating to employment as well as getting around without having to rely on other people.

Their attitude was, Wayfindr director Florence Orban said, "we just want an app to navigate a tube in London, we don't want someone who's picking us up at the ticket barriers, taking us down ... we want to be like everyone else."

With the help of London development studio Ustwo and $1 million funding from Google's philanthropic arm Google.org, that idea became a reality and it has now received a major boost from a United Nations-affiliated body as it conducts trials around the world.

The project is called Wayfindr, and provides audio instructions to help blind people navigate. But it doesn't have an app. Instead, it has produced an "open standard"  a set of guidelines any developer can use to build accessibility tools that work consistently. (The first version of it was released in 2016.)