Accessibility Scout: Personalized Accessibility Scans of Built EnvironmentsWilliam Huang, Xia Su, Jon E. Froehlich, Yang Zhanghttps://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23190 https://
Accessibility Scout: Personalized Accessibility Scans of Built EnvironmentsAssessing the accessibility of unfamiliar built environments is critical for people with disabilities. However, manual assessments, performed by users or their personal health professionals, are laborious and unscalable, while automatic machine learning methods often neglect an individual user's unique needs. Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) enable novel approaches to this problem, balancing personalization with scalability to enable more adaptive and context-aware assessments of…