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NYC Accessbility

Project Lead: @bkey @henripal

The NYC Accessibility project encompasses two sets of tools:

Mine social media for accessibility information: Investigate scraping sites like Yelp, Foursquare, and Twitter for details about accessibility at specific locations and generating automatic readings for a site like AXS Map
MTA Accessibility: Scrape the output of the MTA regarding the availability and maintentance status of elevators, escalators, and other affordances for those with mobility impairments. Present it in a more usable format. (Start with NYC Subways and Buses EE Outage System.)

Some of the initial motivation for this project came from these news pieces:

The initial work for these projects was done at the first NYC D4D hackathon.

If you haven't already, read this first
Join the slack channel #p-nyc-accessibility and introduce yourself. If you need an invite to our slack system, email [email protected].
Read our brainstorming document
Check out our issues page on Github to see if there's something you can contribute to. If you don't see anything or you have questions, ask in the slack channel.
Fork the repo to your own github account. If you're not familiar with this process, you can find the steps here.