‘Friendly Like Me’ app to help people with disabilities during Atlanta Pride

ATLANTA, Ga. – The Pleasant Like Me app has partnered with Atlanta Satisfaction to offer an accessibility information for the Satisfaction pageant and parade.

Director of Outreach Manuel Portillo mentioned that 10% of the LGBTQ+ group lives with mobility points and that this app offers accessibility details about Piedmont Park and the parade route.

“We’ve got mapped out what’s accessible to all people, whether or not that’s in a wheelchair or somebody who may need an invisible incapacity,” Portillo mentioned. “Not only for folks with disabilities however for his or her caretakers in order that they know the place to take their family members. The place they’re not going to have a tough time getting in or transferring across the restaurant.”

By utilizing the app, one can search eating places or different companies forward of time to know what they supply relating to ramps, open-sided chairs or an elevator.

“Our accessibility information we created for Atlanta Satisfaction Pageant outlines all the things you would possibly want or questions or who to ask or name if you happen to want any individual,” Portillo mentioned.

The app isn’t simply obtainable in Atlanta, however nationwide.

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