Welcome, one and all!

[orbitaldiamonds]

I want to start a site that reviews buildings, transportation, vacation spots, etc., for locals and travelers alike.

It will seek detailed, firsthand submissions about the experiences of people with disabilities (as opposed to people like me, your friendly neighborhood mod, who hasn't had that experience and therefore won't be making any assumptions).

Any building, any city. Bakeries, shopping centers, auto shops, museums, car rentals, on and on. New ideas are always welcome! (Seriously, I need all the help I can get.)

I hope the eventual site gets enough input (and traffic that the site could have some kind of recognition for accessibility, something a shopkeeper could put on his/her storefront window (to encourage other shops to work on their accessibility, and they'd be advertised as accessible on the site), and a shit list of the least accessible places, as a heads-up and hopefully to encourage those businesses to get on that. :)

This is going to be crossposted all over the place.

Comments

[cesy]

There is already a site that does this for the UK, I think - I'll dig out the link when I get home tonight, or trouble may have it, as I think she was the one who told me about it.

[orbitaldiamonds]

Awesome, thanks! :D

If it's already been done, then all I need to do is help expand it, if they're interested!

*much better at being a worker bee than a coordinator*

[cesy]

It was http://www.actionforaccess.org

[orbitaldiamonds]

Awesomecakes!

If nothing else, the site I make (if it turns out to be necessary at all) could be a collection of links. :D

ETA: Actually, that site is right along the lines of what I'd wanted to do (though maybe not in pink), though on a world scale. :)

[kake]

You might be thinking of Inaccessible?

[cesy]

It looks like that's it, though they've changed their design/layout since I last visited.

[orbitaldiamonds]

That's fantastic, thanks! :D

[trouble]

Quebec has an English and French language website called Keroul. They have a searchable database.

That said, how do you want people to submit things?

[orbitaldiamonds]

Thanks for the link! :D

For now, since I haven't yet bought a domain or anything, I created this community so people could submit things here. I've even got the settings so that non-members can post too.

[trouble]

I think something that might be helpful would be a template for how you would like reports to look.

[orbitaldiamonds]

Good point. :)