A11yJSON: A standard to describe the accessibility of the physical world

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50 points·robin_reala··6 comments

I originally found this after being surprised at the lack of this sort of information in Schema.org microdata. Seems like a curious admission.

So much this!!

I co-created this, the same thought has been on my backlog for a while. We've experimented with Linked Data/Schema.org compatibility – if this is related to your work, I'd love to move this issue forward. If this is your aim, let's talk (sebastian@sozialhelden.de) :)

Schema.org > #254 "Accessibility of places" https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/254

Re: US ADA Symbols: https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/254#issuecomme... :

Accessible tourism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessible_tourism

ADA signs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADA_Signs

International Symbol of Access (wheelchair sign) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Symbol_of_Access

...

"Find wheelchair accessible places with Google Maps" (2020) https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/maps/whe...

I l2e h1w a8e it m2s t2t w5g l2e t2s!

I think I decoded that as: "I love/like how accessible it makes that wording/writing like this!" (Assuming m2s was meant as “makes” — did I get it right?)

It's incredibly ironic how accessibility is about going the extra mile to make things more accessible, and then people turn it into a weird acronym that only insiders understand, in an effort to avoid typing another 9 letters

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