HW Buddy vs WayAround - Tag and Scan Usage & Stats
HW Buddy
Learn, teach and interact with HumanWare’s Products
Take away the stress of learning something new with the HW Buddy App!
Find your way around HumanWare’s products. With the HW Buddy App by your side, you can achieve your goals and accomplish tasks that you thought you could never do.
The HW buddy is designed to assist teachers, students and professionals to have a successful and enjoyable experience with HumanWare’s products by interacting with easy to read step by step guides.
HW Buddy provides all facets of our user base with comprehensive training and resource materials that can often be difficult to locate in one simple portal. In addition to the days of aimlessly wandering websites for product resources being over, all aspects from videos to text instruction can be found. With HW Buddy you're never alone and if you cannot find what you are looking for, you can even directly contact support for more top-notch assistance.
How to Guides
• Become proficient in using HumanWares products with simple to read step by step guides.
• Achieve the tasks you want by searching for keywords that are relevant to your goals
• Add guides to your favourites
• Build up your knowledge and set guides as completed once you have accomplished them.
Add to Favourites
• Add and remove guides to your favourites so you can easily revisit them if you need to.
• Keep your most favourite guides together until you have fully learned the task in hand.
Search
Keep your most favourite guides together until you have fully learned the task in hand.
Support
HumanWare is a few clicks away. If you need to get in contact with support or sales simply click on the relevant option (phone or email) and you'll soon be chatting with us.
Videos
Check out HumanWare’s video library and follow along with some useful how-to videos.
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The EASIEST way to get TONS of accessible info! Put a WayTag NFC tag (sold separately) on clothes, meds & more. Tap your smartphone to quickly read & write info.
"Information is power, & WayAround takes it to the next level." - Neva Fairchild Retired, American Foundation for the Blind.
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What Are People Saying?
“WayAround is a simple and cost-effective solution for labeling just about anything.” - J.J. Meddaugh, AT Guys.
“This is definitely a game changer.” - Fred Quirk, user.
“I just love it & think it is so much easier than a barcode reader or anything that has to be focused using the camera.” - Melissa Wagner, user.
BENEFITS.
- Save time identifying everyday items by making them permanently accessible.
- Easily manage all the important details about your things.
- Do more of the things you want, with more confidence and independence.
HOW IT WORKS.
Download the WayAround – Tag and Scan app and use with smart WayTag NFC tags (sold separately) to add helpful info to just about anything. WayTags come as stickers, magnets, buttons, and clips. Attach a WayTag to an item, then use the app to read or write information. You’ll get the info through VoiceOver or whichever accessibility settings you’ve chosen on your iPhone.
FEATURES.
Quickly Read Tags with the Tap of a Smartphone.
- Read in a split second, without using the camera.
- Get the description the first time you scan. Then scroll or swipe for more details.
- Go offline and still get your info.
Customize Info to Your Heart’s Content.
- Flexible interface lets you include exactly the information you want.
- Add up to 2K characters of information – much more than most NFC tags will hold.
- Edit or re-write the entire tag as many times as you want.
- Select from pre-defined details to easily add information like dietary information and washing instructions.
- Add helpful links, like user manuals or how-to videos. You can even add multiple links on the same WayTag.
Use Your Preferred Accessibility Settings.
- Works with your iPhone's built-in accessibility features.
- Enter information with voice dictation.
- Optimized to work seamlessly with VoiceOver.
- Interface uses high-contrast colors and large font.
- Compatible with braille display.
- Works for anyone who is blind, low vision, vision impaired, deafblind, colorblind, or sighted.
Makes the most of Your Smartphone's Built-in Features.
- Uses the NFC reader (that's Near Field Communication) available in the most modern smartphones.
- Scanning an NFC tag doesn't use up the phone's battery.
- Automatically back up information on your phone and on our cloud database.
PUBLIC INFORMATION.
Businesses and brands can provide helpful, accessible information that anyone can read with a tap of their smartphone. Our patented solution is easy to implement and improves the customer experience for everyone, including those with disabilities.
Learn more about WayAround's Software-as-a-Service at wayaround.com/public.
WHERE TO GET WAYTAGS.
Purchase WayTags at wayaround.com/shop or from an assistive technology distributor.
DEVICE COMPATIBILITY.
WayAround works with the built-in functionality of iPhone 7 and above. For IPad users and users with older iPhones, use the WayLink Scanner. This external NFC scanner connects to your iPhone via bluetooth, and you can use it to scan WayTags and send the info to the WayAround app.
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- Free
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HW Buddy VS. 
WayAround - Tag and ScanDecember 19, 2024