Google Maps is launching a new accessibility feature that lets users find wheelchair accessible places with the push of a button. “Accessible Places” is a feature that can be turned on and off in the ...

A new Google Maps accessibility feature called Accessible Places will be available to users in Australia, Japan, UK, and the US. The feature will display a wheelchair icon on the map to indicate that ...

In 2009, then 33-year-old Sasha Blair-Goldensohn was walking through New York’s Central Park on his regular commute to the Google offices in Chelsea when a 100-pound rotten tree branch struck him.

Google is introducing a new Accessible Places feature to Maps and search that the company says will make it easier for wheelchair users to see if a location they want to visit is accommodating to ...

A filmmaker with multiple sclerosis hopes an app he developed will help fellow wheelchair users make cities like New York more accessible. For most people, meeting friends for dinner at a new ...

Google is currently rolling out an update for Google Maps that aims to make it easier for wheelchair users to get information about the accessibility of locations. By enabling the app's Accessible ...

As part of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, Google Maps is getting a new “Accessible Places” mode to explicitly highlight wheelchair accessibility information in the app. Google wants to help the ...