{"id":9663,"date":"2019-12-18T11:18:08","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T19:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=9663"},"modified":"2019-12-18T11:29:57","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T19:29:57","slug":"a-personal-story-of-making-maps-more-accessible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/18\/a-personal-story-of-making-maps-more-accessible\/","title":{"rendered":"A personal story of making Maps more accessible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amidst all the frustrations that come along with working in any big company, I&#8217;ve always found that meeting amazing people at Google is far &amp; away the best part of working here. In the last year I&#8217;ve gotten to collaborate a bit with Sasha Blair-Goldensohn, a Google Maps engineer who&#8217;s using his own life experience of needing a wheelchair to <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/outreach-initiatives\/accessibility\/wheelchair-users-google-maps\">help others navigate the world more easily<\/a>. Check out his story:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How I\u2019m making Maps better for wheelchair users like me\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r_0zh54S6mM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>[T]he more I shared with colleagues, the more I found people who wanted to help solve real-world access needs. Using \u201c20 percent time\u201d\u2014time spent outside day-to-day job descriptions\u2014my colleagues like Rio Akasaka and Dianna Hu pitched in and we launched wheelchair-friendly transit directions. That initial work has now led to a full-time team dedicated to accessibility on Maps.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Developing Accessible Routes for Google Maps\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xFJ4Q6MB8A8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/r_0zh54S6mM\">YouTube 1<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/xFJ4Q6MB8A8\">2<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amidst all the frustrations that come along with working in any big company, I&#8217;ve always found that meeting amazing people at Google is far &amp; away the best part of working here. In the last year I&#8217;ve gotten to collaborate a bit with Sasha Blair-Goldensohn, a Google Maps engineer who&#8217;s using his own life experience [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9663"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9663"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9696,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9663\/revisions\/9696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}