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Sights for Hope Becomes First Host Site of its Kind for MABLE Maps App

By Sights for Hope Team | October 22, 2026

A Sights for Hope client smiling while testing the MABLE Maps indoor navigation app on a smartphone with assistance from a Lehigh University graduate student. Other clients and students also are testing the technology in the background at Sights for Hope’s Lehigh Valley Services Center.

Sights for Hope’s Lehigh Valley Services Center has become the fifth location overall, and the first social service organization serving people with vision loss, to serve as a host site for MABLE Maps – an innovative accessible navigation application being developed at Lehigh University. Now available for download on iOS devices, MABLE Maps helps people […]

Lehigh University Seeks People with Vision Loss for Wayfinding Study

By Sights for Hope Team | April 14, 2026

A man with a white cane using a smartphone for navigation software in a tech lab while two researchers observe.

Lehigh University is seeking people with vision loss to test a new wayfinding app designed for indoor spaces. The study is part of the MABLE initiative, a joint project by Lehigh University and Good Shepherd Rehabilitation. MABLE stands for Mapping for Accessible Built Environments, and the MABLE app is being developed to optimize wayfinding assistance […]