[Accessibility] Event

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Hello!

This may be a little late, but we have a DemocracyLab day-long event happening TOMORROW (US time) to refine the validation tool for accessible sidewalk collections. 
In a nutshell- we at OpenSidewalks have been funded by Microsoft to create city teams and mobilize people to do sidewalk collections in 5 large Latin American cities. 
Some of our city teams have really gone forward and took off! Others have had a slower start because mapping, as you know, is not necessarily natural for all people.

Our next step, the validation step, has been difficult for my very small team, so we have created a python tool to at least do something like 'spell checking' on the sidewalks and crossings that the teams have collected. 

The objective of tomorrow's hackathon has three prongs (depending on who joins our team and how many of us there are):
1) continue to enhance the validation script
2) continue to map and validate by hand some of the additions that the LATAM city teams have made

if enough of you on this list join, I would love to also have the third conversation (which we have been having internally) about 
3) an OSM proposal for surface conditions and other accessibility barriers along highway=footway line elements.

PLEASE do sign up if you can. The event itself is a large hackathon, please look to join the OpenSidewalks team if you are looking for us.
2021 National Day of Civic Hacking - Open Project Workday Tickets, Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 8:30 AM | Eventbrite

I'm also super happy to organize or join another meeting that would better accommodate folks in other parts of the world. 
(and hi, Carlos- it's been a bit!)

Thanks,
Anat





Sent from my mobile. Please excuse brevity and typos.
On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 7:56 AM Catherine Roy <ecrire at catherine-roy.net> wrote:
> Hi Jessica,
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> This sounds like a great idea and I would certainly be interested in hearing more about it.
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> Catherine Roy
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>> On Sep 16, 2021, at 9:19 AM, Jessica Cahill <jessica.cahill at abilitynet.org.uk> wrote:
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>> Dear all,
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>> I’m an accessibility and usability consultant at AbilityNet, a UK tech charity, and I also volunteer separately for the Missing Maps project/Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. I’ve been on this list for a while and wondered if there would be any interest in a virtual meetup for people working at the intersection of accessibility and GIS?
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>> We (AbilityNet) have our annual accessibility and inclusive design conference coming up in November, TechSharePro, and there would be the opportunity to host something like a networking session at this if this is of interest. (We would not let the ticket price be a barrier to anyone wishing to attend.) I haven’t come across much in the way of events for people working at the intersection of accessibility and maps, but do fill me in if I have missed them.
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>> Do let me know your thoughts or suggestions. We would also be looking for a co-host for this session if anyone would like to volunteer.
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>> Best wishes,
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>> Jessica Cahill
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