Google Maps incorporates a new mode that highlights places that are accessible with wheelchairs

Google Maps accessibility

If there is something that Google is betting on, it is offer enough information to those with reduced mobility. It is the latest addition to Google Maps and it incorporates a new mode that highlights places that are accessible by wheelchair.

It is not the only Google app that is used for people with some type of physical problem. A complete map of functions is worth nothing if it does not show those places that are perfectly compatible for those people who go in a wheelchair.

We can only imagine that situation in which one plans to go to a specific place in a new city and does not take into account the accessibility from the parking lot to the hotel room. Is this is where the new mode comes into play of Google Maps to offer that valuable information.

Now users will see a new accessibility setting in Google Maps' own settings. This is capable of activating places that are accessible to people with reduced mobility and who need a wheelchair to access any space.

At the moment the deployment of this new functionality is reaching Australia, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States, although it will reach more countries periodically. It will be icons of a wheelchair that appear in the search results, while other details such as parking lots, entrances, elevators or rest areas will also appear in them.

In fact the same users they can add this information from the local guide. Google has provided a guide for those who need to use this new mode that offers valuable information for the day-to-day of those who use a wheelchair. A fact that many times they forget about the accessibility problems that a lot of establishments have; yes he has put the batteries to indicate establishments with home delivery.


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