Download the app
Free, on iOS and Android. Do it before you arrive if you can — gallery Wi-Fi gets busy. Turn Bluetooth on; that's how the beacons reach you.
Built at Centre[3]
The space introduces itself
beacbeac is a free app that turns your phone into your guide. Walk up to a work and it wakes up on its own — schedules, artist statements, biographies, and video delivered to your device in the format you've chosen. No wall labels to squint at. No QR codes to hunt down.
What it is
A quieter kind of access
Most accessibility gets bolted on. beacbeac is an invisible layer of digital hospitality — it's simply there when you need it.
Small battery-powered beacons sit alongside the work. As you approach one, the app recognises it and brings up everything about that piece: what it is, who made it, what they were thinking, when the next performance starts. You don't have to find anything or scan anything. You just walk.
Centre[3] is a disability-led organization, and beacbeac came out of that. We built it by centring the requirements of Blind, Low Vision, Deaf, Deafblind, and disabled visitors — which, as usual, made it better for everyone who walks through the door.
Using it
Three steps, once
Set your profile
Choose how content reaches you — high-contrast text, larger type, vibration cues, a simplified interface, captions and video. Set it once and it follows you to every beacbeac site.
Walk the space
That's it. Content arrives as you approach each work and stays out of your way otherwise. Move at whatever pace suits you, in whatever order you like.
Made for how you move
Your settings, everywhere you go
Low vision
High contrast + large type
Text scales and re-contrasts to your setting, and everything is written to be read aloud cleanly by your screen reader.
Deaf + hard of hearing
Captions + visual cues
Video content carries captions, and audio material comes with a written equivalent rather than a summary of one.
Deafblind
Vibration cues
Your device signals through haptics when you've arrived at a beacon, so nothing depends on you seeing or hearing a prompt.
Cognitive + sensory
Simplified interface
A pared-back view with less on screen at once, for anyone who'd rather have the essentials without the surrounding noise.
Out in the wild
beacbeac at Supercrawl
September 11 — 13, 2026 · James Street North
Supercrawl closes a kilometre of James North for three days of music, art, and installation — and outdoor festivals are where accessibility usually falls apart first. beacbeac will be running across our installations, so you can get the details on every piece from your own phone instead of fighting a crowd for a sightline.
Get it
Download beacbeac
Free on iOS and Android. Scan the code, or use the link directly — whichever is easier for you.
s3nsora-prod.web.app/download
Trouble connecting? Make sure Bluetooth is on and the app is up to date, then
restart it. Still stuck — find a facilitator on site, or email
info@centre3.com and we'll sort it out.
For venues + organizers
Run it at your site
beacbeac was developed at Centre[3] out of years of work with cultural institutions. It deploys with almost no infrastructure — weather-resistant, battery-powered beacons and an admin page you manage yourself.
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Deploy
Plug-and-play beacons, weather-resistant and battery-powered. No wiring, no permanent installation, minimal hardware cost.
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Learn
Anonymous engagement analytics — which locations draw attention, how long visitors stay, which beacons are connecting and how often.
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Comply
Real-time AODA compliance for temporary and outdoor installations, where conventional accessible signage rarely reaches.
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Co-design
Developed with Deaf and disabled communities rather than for them, so the accommodations reflect actual use.