Tuesday, November 12, 2024

MEET THE WHEELCHAIR USER MAKING GOOGLE MAPS MORE ACCESSIBLE

 SASHA BLAIR-GOLDENSOHN



The MTA lawsuit was a huge win for accessibility in New York City.

“The great thing about Sasha is his unwavering determination and vision,” says Emily Seelenfreund, DRA’s lead attorney on the case.

“Various folks wanted to settle for less. Sasha knew there could be more.

He didn’t want to settle for pretty good — he wanted to settle for how it should be.”

Over the years, there have been many attempts to create mapping programs detailing the accessibility of the built environment.

All have run into the same problem: scale.

For accessibility information to be useful, it needs to be thorough and widespread.

The amount of data needed to make an accessibility map useful is enormous.

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