12-28-2018
02:38 PM
- last edited on
04-19-2022
07:03 PM
by
grazittiApiTest
Hey everyone! This is a recap of the Worldwide Accessible Walk @EmekaUlor organized this December, Buenos Aires edition.
This meet up was held on the 2nd of December, it was created for the 1st, but because of the G20 summit held in Buenos Aires we decided to move it until the summit was done.
I am posting this pretty late, sorry. I would normally have posted this recap much sooner, but I have been sick which meant not feeling well enough, among other related things like not having that much energy that prevented me to write this before. Anyway, back to the recap...
Out of the 8 people that signed up, 3 attended: @DanielEspinoza, @ValeriaA_ and @santiagoirale.
We walked mostly through the Palermo Soho area, it's an area full of businesses like cafe's, bars, design shops, restaurants, and so on. It's common for locals and tourists to hang out in this area on weekends and at night.
On our walk, we passed by around of 90 places verifying their accessibility. We edited their pages, informing of their accesibility status, and uploaded photos of the entrance and some seating areas too.
On our way, we also went in some businesses:
Williamsburg, a hamburger restaurant that won awards, that has accesible seating but not an accessible entrance.
Around 3 hours after we started, we went to Tufic to eat some ice cream, even though the ice cream is pretty good, the place isn't accessible at all. It doesn't have an accessible entrance, isn't accessible inside because of the small spaces and as it's expected after knowing that, doesn't have an elevator to get to another seating area.
We took a 360 photo there, which you can see in our shared album. ( If someone knows how to add 360 photos here that aren't on Street View/Maps I would be really thankful if they could tell me :)) )
Here are some of the kind of not-accessible entrances that we came across:
It was honestly a bit frustrating to see some of them, as many of them could have easily been accessible.
There ended up being few accessible places of all that we passed by, of different degrees of accessibility. Maps only asked about the entrance of most of the places, so not all of these places are also accessible inside:
With the information gathered, I created a new list with some of those places to help people that need accessibility information in the area: Lugares Accesibles de Palermo Soho (Accessible Places in Palermo Soho), I will keep looking for more accessible places we might have missed on my future visits and add them to the list.
You can check out more photos of this meet up in our shared photos album, clicking here, and also check out the Worldwide Accessibility Walk photos album clicking here.
I will try organize my next accessibility meet up in an area were businesses and the architecture in general is more spacious, which will hopefully translate to wider entrances and that we find many more accessible places too.
Thank you for reading! (And sorry for the lateness again!)
Please mention me with @Jesi on your reply, so I get notified
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12-28-2018 03:53 PM - edited 12-28-2018 04:01 PM
Hello @Jesi , @DanielEspinoza,
@ValeriaAumasque and
Brilliant work, I am hoping this will create even more exposure for this great initiative. And I hope my friends @IlankovanT and
@EmekaHouse would be also happy by this post.
Thank you for the detailed and informative feature, it will surely help me to learn more about
♿accessibility campaign👍
Well done, good job!
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12-28-2018 04:39 PM
Wonderful Jessi 👍
12-28-2018 07:15 PM
@Jesi thank you for your resillience and for ensuring you post a recap.despite the tight schedule.
I am really glad to see how fun filled the meetup was. You highlighted places without accessibility trail and others with inclusiveness. Such a good idea.
Your community has been terrific and quite active in this community. I am happy @ValeriaA_ has been supportive and also @DanielEspinoza and @santiagoirale for their dedication.
Buenos Aires...thank you!
@TraciC should see this recap too!
12-29-2018 10:27 AM - edited 01-02-2019 09:31 AM
Thanks @Jesi for sharing the highlights with us, i saw your pictures and it seems you had a lot of fun with other local guides from your region, keep doing the good work together 😉
I want to share a picture from connectlivedelhi which was a meet up organised by Google in India on Dec 8 2018
@EmekaUlor@Osaka78forTRUMP@KashifMisidia
•Take a look of connectlivedelhi:⤵
•Connect Live Delhi Highlights:
12-30-2018 04:33 PM
What a wonderful experience..
You guys done great @Jesi @ValeriaA_ @santiagoirale
It's never late Jesi
Thanks for sharing your experience with us.
12-31-2018 04:04 AM
Hello @Jesi,
Thank you for sharing this recap and for the amazing initiative! Your post is so detailed and informative and I am sure that it will surely help Local Guides to learn more about accessibility campaign!
It's so wonderful to see so many great recaps and so many people focused on enabling access for people with disabilities.
Hope you had a great Christmas celebration and wishing you happy New Year in advance! 🙂
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12-31-2018 05:54 AM
Hie @Jesi,
Thank you very much for all information you've shared in the recap. I really enjoyed reading your recap.
12-31-2018 05:58 AM - edited 01-02-2019 09:21 AM
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Hie IshantHP_ig,
Rather than posting that image here, you can consider pasting with specific thread. There are two thread with the recap of connect live Delhi 2018.
My apologies @IshantHP_ig, I updated the post.
Good Day. See you around.
12-31-2018 08:06 AM
I like the way you went about recap the flow was easy to understand and it looks like you guys contributed a good lot to the mapping of the area. Good job all around.