A crowdsourcing platform for the construction of accessibility maps

  • Authors:
  • Carlos Cardonha;Diego Gallo;Priscilla Avegliano;Ricardo Herrmann;Fernando Koch;Sergio Borger

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM Research - Brazil, São Paulo, Brazil;IBM Research - Brazil, São Paulo, Brazil;IBM Research - Brazil, São Paulo, Brazil;IBM Research - Brazil, São Paulo, Brazil;IBM Research - Brazil, São Paulo, Brazil;IBM Research - Brazil, São Paulo, Brazil

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 10th International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

We present in this article a crowdsourcing platform that enables the collaborative creation of accessibility maps. The platform provides means for integration of different kind of data, collected automatically or with user intervention, to augment standard maps with accessibility information. The article shows the architecture of the platform, dedicating special attention to the smartphone applications we developed for data collection. The article also describes a preliminar experiment conducted on field, showing how the analysis of data produced by our solution can bring novel insights in accessibility challenges that can be found in cities.