maptime/map-accessibility-guidelines

Name: map-accessibility-guidelines

Owner: maptime

Description: A set of guidelines for developers, cartographers, GIS specialists, geographers, and civic hackers to consider when creating projects that include web maps

Created: 2015-02-22 20:12:49.0

Updated: 2018-05-01 02:43:01.0

Pushed: 2017-10-16 13:10:12.0

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Map Accessibility Guidelines

A set of guidelines for developers, cartographers, GIS specialists, geographers, and civic hackers to consider when creating projects including web maps.

Check out a summary of some Best Practices and accompanying code snippets. Our Wiki site contains additional background information about accessibility and some additional web and print resources you may want to check out.

Want to help contribute to this repo? Visit our 'How to Contribute' page for information on how to get started!

2015 NACIS Conference :earth_americas:

Kitty Hurley, Alison Link, and Mitch Schaps conducted a 20-minute presentation on Thursday, Oct. 15th, 2015 at the NACIS Conference in Minneapolis. Our abstract was titled Starting Conversations for More Accessible Maps and presented in the Community-Oriented Cartography session.

Check out our Slide Deck!

Project History

This project originated in Feburary 2015 as part of the Hennepin County Geo:Code event in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Other groups who have supported or contributed to this project include:


This work is supported by the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, Grant Number U24TR002306. This work is solely the responsibility of the creators and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.