Urban Travel, Sustainability & Accessibility

SASHA BLAIR-GOLDENSOHN Sasha Blair-Goldensohn points to spoken walking-directions, originally developed for blind/low vision users. In a bi...

SASHA BLAIR-GOLDENSOHN Sasha Blair-Goldensohn said that if Google Maps plots and reviews 40 million places around the world, it needs AI to...

SASHA BLAIR-GOLDENSOHN To make sure the data that users generate is accurate, Sasha Blair-Goldensohn is reaching back into his AI tool bag. ...

SASHA BLAIR-GOLDENSOHN Google Maps relies on its users to provide data on everything from business features to route timing and navigation d...

SASHA BLAIR-GOLDENSOHN Sasha Blair-Goldensohn praises his employer’s commitment to accessibility. He said the tech giant’s Accessibility a...

SASHA BLAIR-GOLDENSOHN Working in a place that values inclusion has been a gratifying experience for Sasha Blair-Goldensohn. He says that ...

  SASHA BLAIR-GOLDENSOHN Christopher Patnoe, Google's head of accessibility and disability inclusion in Europe, the Middle East and Afri...

SASHA BLAIR-GOLDENSOHN Ever since, Sasha Blair-Goldensohn has been expanding the boundaries of accessibility information displayed in Googl...

  SASHA BLAIR-GOLDENSOHN The amount of data needed to make an accessibility map useful is enormous. That kind of data takes a major player. ...

  SASHA BLAIR-GOLDENSOHN The MTA lawsuit was a huge win for accessibility in New York City. “The great thing about Sasha is his unwaverin...

SASHA BLAIR-GOLDENSOHN Sasha Blair-Goldensohn stepped up his advocacy by working with legal nonprofit Disability Rights Advocates to bring a...

SASHA BLAIR-GOLDENSOHN The gallery of subway wheelchair access failures illustrates how frequent and widespread the problem is. Inaccessib...

SASHA BLAIR-GOLDENSOHN In 2014, he started an online gallery of subway failures and invited other New Yorkers to contribute. The images sh...

SASHA BLAIR-GOLDENSOHN After years as a nondisabled commuter, Sasha Blair-Goldensohn got a firsthand education on an inconvenient truth: tha...

  SASHA BLAIR-GOLDENSOHN Subway elevators were frequently broken down, further limiting mobility and inclusion. “You are either stuck on ...

  SASHA BLAIR-GOLDENSOHN Recovery and rehab was lengthy and full of setbacks, but after a year and a half he was ready to return to work. ...

  SASHA BLAIR-GOLDENSOHN “The first project that I worked on when I came here was about how Maps handles reviews,” says Sasha Blair-Goldens...

SASHA BLAIR-GOLDENSOHN "It’s a basic human right to enter a place like anybody else,” says Sasha Blair-Goldensohn. This simple ideal ...