GoMedia wins Best App Design Award for Transport Accessibility Solution

GoMedia's solution for supporting passengers with hearing loss on public transport via personal onboard announcements has been named among the winners at the Best App Design Awards.

The transport accessibility solution, which won funding from the UK Department for Transport through its £9m First of a Kind 2021 (FOAK21) competition earlier this year, has been dubbed HEAR (Hearing Enhanced Audio Relay), and is widely supported by the UK’s train operators. When connected to the train’s onboard Wi-Fi, notifications can be heard or read via an app installed on users’ personal devices, keeping them updated with the journey information they need, in a format that they need.