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@aardrian@toot.cafe
2024-04-04 20:39:48

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Google Maps emailed me with early access to its automated venue suggestions (branded ‘AI’).
So I asked for wheelchair accessible restaurants within a mile.
It offered four options with the nearest ~3 miles away, the fourth ~18 miles away. I know at least one of them is wrong about wheelchair access. Each is a regional / national chain.
While Google Maps supposedly tracks wheelchair access as reported by users, it seemed to go off user reviews. And it did so poor…

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I ask: “find me a wheelchair accessible restaurant within 1 mile.” Google Maps response: “Buffalo, New York has many wheelchair accessible restaurants within a mile, including diners, sports bars, and other restaurants.” Google Maps offers Denny’s, and quotes this from a review: “Handicap and wheelchair accessible?”
Next Google Maps suggestion: Tully’s Good Times Amherst, with this review quote: ”If you need a high chair or a handicap accessible table ask for a low table.”
Final two suggestions: Tully's Good Times Main & Transit Rd and Milestones. The quoted reviews do not mention wheelchairs.
@bencurthoys@mastodon.social
2024-02-18 06:51:26

It doesn't have to be full support for quote toots, but I really fucking wish that when I'm in #elkzone and I click on a link to a toot, I stayed in Elk instead of opening the link in a browser and then becoming unable to like and boost without some copy and pasting of URLs back into elk again.