The End of Checkbox Accessibility

By David Sirota, Founder & CEO, ROLLIN There's a field on Google Maps called "Wheelchair Accessible." It's a yes or a no. Sometimes it's filled in. Most of the time, it's wrong. A friend of mine — a wheelchair user — told me he once drove forty minutes to a restaurant that Google marked as wheelchair accessible. When he got there, there were three steps at the entrance. No ramp. The host offered to "help carry him in." That's not accessibility. That's a checkbox someone clicked in 2019 and never looked at again. And here's the thing nobody in tech wants to admit: almost every accessibility solution on the market today works the same way. Binary. Yes or no. Accessible or not. A single field in a database that flattens a deeply physical, deeply personal experience into one bit of information. That's not a data problem. That's an intelligence problem. And we're about to find out just how badly it's broken. The Agent Age Is Coming. Accessibility Data Isn't Ready. In the next two years, the