During 2019, myself and couple of my friends decided to start exploring several activities from the eyes of a wheel chair adventurer. As a local guide I have called the group out for a nice dining to discuss the list of places we are going to visit on google maps (in what categories), how do we approach each place, how we will spend time there, what we will do and what facilities to ask about for a fellow wheel chair adventurer. Never the less we insisted on making up the group from several friends with different preferences and one wheelchair boy and one wheelchair girl, so we can experiment more. We also decided not to try or do any of the activities offered by the place on google maps unless it is accessible for all of us (including our two different wheelchair friends). by the end of the meeting we have had came up with several categories and few places in each of these categories. For example we picked a couple nice city parks under the greenery category, two or three places under river bank fishing, three places for deep see anglers, five places under coffee break category, and five places under restaurants and cuisines.
For each place we decided to check for four main points: wheel chair entrance and rest room, Post signs and menus in Braille, help offering by trained employees on wide aisles, and finally accessible website. We also created a schedule for the visits within minimal budget requests to be able to try more different offered dishes, drinks, and/or interact more with the staff. The idea itself was a very novel and exciting for my friends especially to be able to see the world from the eyes of others.
by the end of our discussions we created several new google map lists for locations on the map that are worth visiting which would make the life of others easier and that belong to responsible businesses. The idea itself was supposed to encourage more wheel-chair adventurers to visit places they usually thought it might not be ever accessible before. however in the mean time, it gave a such very important feedback to businesses in different categories about how important small things are to different visitors an customers.
I believe what we liked the most was the friendly attitude of the staff whenever we went to support wheel chair visitors. by the end we all spent very nice time, experimented many new things and contributed in a better responsible understanding of wheelchair-enabled or even different disabled-ready importance for the places on google maps.