WheelChair Assistant

Inspiration

Both my grandparent use wheelchairs and from this first hand experience, I understand how difficult it can be to not be able to use a public everyday life facility such as bathrooms as a result of being restricted by wheelchair accessibility. Malaysia, where I live, also suffers from one of the many countries that neglects its disabled citizens especially in the accessibility to public facilities.

What it does

My project helps disabled people all around the world who use wheelchairs to find every wheelchair accessible bathroom on a map by simply searching any location no matter how specific such as state, city, place, country or even restaurant on the search function. It then shows additional information such as open hours, name that automatically opens a search on google for additional information when clicked, address that automatically opens its google maps when clicked , city and state. It loads and shows the user all the accessible bathrooms after a second of not scrolling so that it will not overload the device, make the app run easily and avoid any problems. It runs on both android and pc. On android it automatically locates the user and move the map of the user to their gps location.

How I built it

I built this with the help of kivy in python. I also used the mapview widget in kivy.

What was the challenges I faced

The biggest challenge that I faced building this project was importing the large database and integrating it with my project. Though I am glad that I learned from this.

My proudest accomplishment

The accomplishment I am proudest of is the search function. This is because it helped enhance my project in unimaginable ways and it made it so much easier for the user to navigate through the map as it can locate the user to anywhere they want, and however specific they want.

What have I learned

I have learned from this experience by learning different widgets and packages I can work with and further enhancing my skills.

What is the future plans of WheelChair Assistant

In the future I hope to update and improve my project in every way possible so that it can be the best it can be and I can help as many people as possible. I plan to deploy this to the play store so that I can help even more people. For example, I plan to add on other public facilities that are commonly not accessible for people on wheelchairs.

Built With

• kivy
• python