Providers
Service and health providers along two axes that both matter. Some are disability-literate: they actually serve disabled people well. Some are themselves disabled-owned or disabled-led. A provider can be either, or both.
Access Atlas
Open betaKnowing whether a place works for you should not require calling ahead, reading between the lines of a review, or turning up and finding out.
Access Atlas collects the specifics, and is honest about which ones have been confirmed by disabled people and which are still just someone's word.
Three connected parts
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Places
Businesses and physical spaces, described by the details that decide whether you can use them: step-free entrances, accessible restrooms, sensory conditions. Photos come from the people who were actually there.
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Community validation
The layer that ties the other two together. First-person disabled experiences: structured ratings, comments, photos that confirm or correct a listing over time, rather than a single review from a stranger.
We will not tell you something is accessible when we don't know
A wrongly-confirmed "step-free entrance" does not cause a bad afternoon. It strands someone, or puts them somewhere unsafe. So the validation model is deliberately more conservative than the consensus systems it borrows from. Here the stakes are physical, not a data label.
Listings that nobody has confirmed say self-reported / awaiting verification, and they keep saying it until the community threshold is met. We do not have a "high confidence" badge to hand out early.
And in validation, lived experience is weighted: a first-person disabled reviewer outranks a third-party observer on the access dimension they actually live with. That is an intentional departure from one-person-one-vote, and it is the right one.
Built to be usable on the worst day, not the best one
A disability platform that isn't itself accessible is a fatal failure, not an embarrassing one. Access Atlas is built with zero client-side JavaScript on its browsing surface, so it works on an old phone, a slow connection, and with whatever assistive technology you already use. WCAG 2.2 AA is the floor.
You can browse without an account. Contribution is pseudonymous, and you are never required to disclose your disability type to use or contribute to the directory. There are no third-party trackers.
Accessibility tools built with the community, not sold to it.
Browse it, or help build it
Access Atlas is in open beta and gets more useful with every listing a real person confirms. If you want to contribute, or want it covering your area, say so.