Accessibility isn’t
a yes or no question.
A place can have a step-free entrance and still involve a long walk, a heavy door, or nowhere to sit. The details make the difference.
Know before you go.
Access Notes brings together real places, clearly sourced access information, and practical experiences from people who visited. It helps you ask a more useful question: what would someone with needs like mine wish they’d known?
Made for the way you move.
You might use a walker, cane, or wheelchair. You might need frequent breaks, lower sensory stimulation, step-free routes, or information you can use without sight or hearing. Your needs can change. You choose what matters to you, without sharing a diagnosis.
Three sources. Three perspectives.
- Open data
- Place details and mapped access features from OpenStreetMap, including separately mapped entrances when available.
- Venue information
- Practical details from official venue sources, with a link and the date we checked them.
- Community experience
- First-hand observations shared by Access Notes members. We don’t invent reviews or import other sites’ users.
These sources can disagree. We preserve the differences instead of collapsing them into a score. Missing information means unknown, not inaccessible.
Small details are a good start.
We’re starting with New York City and a modest set of carefully sourced destinations. Community notes begin with actual people, so many places won’t have notes yet. If you know a place, you can help the next person by sharing just one useful detail.
Read our data and source approach or community guidelines.