Wheel Chair Assistant

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.

My project helps disabled people all around the world who use wheelchairs to find every wheelchair accessible bathroom by simply searching any location, state, city, place or country on the search function. It then shows additional information such as open hours, name that links it to a website, address that links it to the google maps, 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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
• mysql
• python