Hello everyone! I hope you had a good start of the year so far and that you and your loved ones are all staying healthy. I really can’t believe we are in February already!
Me, personally, started the year with a lot of energy and very motivated, and I want to put that energy into all aspects of my life, including what I can do as a Local Guide to raise awareness in accessibility and help things change for the better.
One thing I have already done is change the way I write my reviews.
I used to just write everything in one big paragraph with nearly no separations, but I realize now that if you’re looking for some sort of info in particular, it can be hard to search for it in those sort of reviews, unless you search for a word of course, but not everyone knows how to do that.
Since recently I’ve been dividing my reviews into smaller paragraphs, and, inspired by fellow Accessibility Champions like @Sagir who add the accessibilityemoji 
when they mention it in their reviews and mixing it up with my love for adding emojis everywhere but specially at the left of sentences 
, I’ve also been adding related emojis at the beginning of each paragraph that easily show what it is about. I really think this helps the review be more accessible for everyone, besides letting people find accessibility information in an easier way. I’ve also found that I end up adding more info that way, and it just seems a lot moreorganized.
(Edit: thanks to @ErmesT 's point of view, that considered some people don’t read the reviews and would just look at the emoji, I’ve come up with the solution of adding a “cancel” emoji next to the accessibility emoji if I’m pointing out that the place isn’t accessible. I recommend you do the same!)
(You can check more of my reviews and translate them on my Maps profile)
Besides that goal, which seems to be already achieved, I am really excited about our monthly Accessibility webinars, what we will learn from future guests, and teamwork with the One Accessibility members. I already have a couple of possible guests in mind, which will remain anonymous for now, but it’s been exciting to think of the possibility!
Still talking about my contributions in Maps, I plan to continue taking photos and videos that clearly showcase the entrance and all areas and showcase accessibility. I hope to be able to continue doing so, but it relies on my ability to safely go out and visit places and to us in Argentina not having another lockdown, so we’ll see.
I would absolutely love to be able to safely host an accessibility in person meet-up sometime this year! Hopefully it can be done once cases are lower or more people are vaccinated.
By being able to virtually meet so many Local Guides around the world last year, I realized that there are many Local Guides that don’t know all the ways we can help add accessibility information to Maps, so I really want to keep writing accessibility related posts and keep raising awareness with this new found energy.
Since last year, the Spanish speaking LG community grew a LOT too, so one of my big goals is to raise awareness in the Spanish communityand help our countries have more helpful info. Maybe expect accessibility posts in Spanish? 
Not as related to Local Guides, but through conferences and more I’ve been learning a lot about accessibility and inclusion in all aspects, and I hope to keep learning everything I can about ways there are to help things be as inclusive and accessible as possible, what to take into account that might not be so obvious for some of us.
Thank you for reading and feel free to answer these questions in the comments, as many as you’d like. I’d love to read your answers! 
- What do you think about adding emojis on your reviews? Do you do it? Will you try it?
- What kind of guest would you like to hear and learn about in our One Accessibility webinars?
- Is there any specific thing you want to learn more about when it comes to accessibility? It can be related to Maps, or not!
- Would you like to read accessibility posts in another language? If you do, which one/s?
- Finally and most importantly, what are your 2021 Accessibility goals? Please share here or you can write a separate Post using #OneAccessibility and #MyAimForAccessibility hashtags, and tag one of the #OneAccessibility team member in your post.
If you have a question, suggestion, or contribution, feel free to comment below. You can read last week’s roundup article here and check the list of our other articles under "Accessibility Uncovered".
), and edit the older reviews. Do you think that would help? I could do the same with the other emojis as well. Thanks for the feedback and for sharing your fresh point of view!
