AccessibleMaps: Addressing Gaps in Maps for People with Visual and Mobility Impairments

Loitsch, Claudia; Müller, Karin; Engel, Christin; Weber, Gerhard; Stiefelhagen, Rainer

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-58805-2_34

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“…To support alignment work, enhancing awareness of the conditions along the journey is the first step. Much work to support the mobility of people with disabilities is in the form of accessibility maps [8,32,37,44], which shows accessibility information in a map form. It makes intuitive sense that these maps can help people with disabilities develop awareness and an understanding of the space so as to help them accomplish alignment work.…”

Section: From Showing Accessibility To Supporting Alignment Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Alignment Work for Urban Accessibility: A Study of How Wheelchair Users Travel in Urban Spaces

Ding

Dai

et al. 2022

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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Mobility is the key for people with disabilities to have full participation in life. To support their mobility, previous work primarily focused on accessibility as an attribute of the external environment to be evaluated, labeled, visualized, and improved. Relatively less work has looked at how people with disabilities go out and move around in practice and work to achieve mobility. This paper presents a qualitative study of 14 wheelchair users' travel practices in everyday life in China, highlighting urban accessibility as alignment work -- the use of an awareness of the conditions along the journey to continuously align and re-align various resources to ensure accessibility and mobility across contexts and moments. By highlighting alignment work, we present another side of the story of urban accessibility, and broaden design considerations to support mobility for wheelchair users.

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Section: From Showing Accessibility To Supporting Alignment Workmentioning

confidence: 99%