Project Sidewalk

📢 Huge milestone reached! Project Sidewalk now has over **ONE MILLION** sidewalk accessibility labels (1,163,413 labels to be exact) across 21,368 km of city streets. 🎉🥳🎈🎊

📅UrbanAccess'24 deadline extended to Sept 27th. Submit those Urban+AI thought pieces, position papers, works-in-progress, demos, and more! accessiblecities.github.io/UrbanAccess202…

Two weeks to submit your work to UrbanAccess'24📅: accessiblecities.github.io/UrbanAccess202…

Interested in the role of AI in shaping Cities and Accessibility? Submit a short paper to our workshp on "The Future of Urban Accessibility: The Role of AI". Deadline: Sept 20th.

Exciting opportunity to bring disparate perspectives together to discuss the emerging role of AI in the design of equitable and accessible cities, transportation systems, and interactive tools for mapping and navigation. Let's go! 🚀

📢We've completely redesigned our API pages! It's never been easier to: ✔️ Download data in CSV, GeoJSON, or Shapefiles. ✔️ Access data programmatically through our revised API. ✔️ Build tools that champion accessibility & improve urban mobility. sidewalk-chicago.cs.washington.edu/api

Our pilot in India 🇮🇳 is now live 🎉🥳

How well do crowdsourcing assessments of sidewalks compare with government data? Find out in our new Journal of Urban Science paper: Validating Pedestrian Infrastructure Data: How Well Do Street-View Imagery Audits Compare to Government Field Data? mdpi.com/2413-8851/9/4/…

In honor of Danville native, Gene Hackman's passing at 95 yrs - working on his childhood home section in @projsidewalk. #GeneHackman #Danville @downtowndville, @VCFirst, @DanvilleUnder, @MattInChicago

This Martin Luther King Jr. Day, let's honor his legacy through service. We're giving back by participating in #CitizenScience projects like Project Sidewalk, where classifying street-view photos helps make cities more accessible. Watch the full SciStarter LIVE episode featuring…

📢 Do you use disability parking? We're conducting an interview study to better understand opportunities & challenges with disability parking & the role of emerging technology therein. Interested? Fill out this screener: 🔗 tinyurl.com/uw-parking-scr… 💸 $25/hr compensation

We are too! Thanks to you and the Active Transporation Alliance! 💜

Here’s to all the #VerizonVolunteers participating in the @projsidewalk #CitizenScience project through SciStarter’s corporate volunteer program. More than 10,000 digital observations from @verizon volunteers have helped researchers identify accessibility issues pertaining to…

How did we miss this? Check out this amazing "Story Map" of using Project Sidewalk to evaluate sidewalk accessibility around transit stations in Chicago: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/72a8c2… #Chicago #UrbanAccessibility

Congrats to Hoda Allahbakhshi and Annina Ardüser on their paper "Navigation Challenges in Urban Areas for Persons with Mobility Restrictions", which used Project Sidewalk in Zurich to gather participatory data on sidewalk accessibility! drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/docum…

For the last decade+, my group has developed new interactive tools to advance understanding of the accessibility of the physical world for people with disabilities—projects like AccessScore, AccessVis, and Sidewalk Equity.

Now that the #CHI2025 deadline is over, it's time to work on your UrbanAccess2024 submissions 🙌🏽. Deadline Sept 20 11:59PM AOE. accessiblecities.github.io/UrbanAccess202…

Ever wondered how screen-reader users interact with dynamic geovisualizations? 🤔 Check out our latest @ieeevis short paper—AltGeoViz: Facilitating Accessible Geovisualization.🤗 Preprint: arxiv.org/pdf/2406.13853 Github: github.com/makeabilitylab…

📢 Woohoo, we are over 75% to our goal! We now need more responses from sighted users of walkers, mobility scooters, & manual wheelchairs. Please reshare. To Participate, fill out this screening form tinyurl.com/sidewalk-scree…