AVIV ScoutRoute


AVIV ScoutRoute

Community Mapping for Safer, More Inclusive Streets

AVIV ScoutRoute is a fully accessible mobile app that helps communities, planners, and everyday travelers identify and document barriers in the built environment — including sidewalks, crossings, curb ramps, and other tricky or unsafe spots.

Designed for screen readers, switch access, and diverse mobility needs, AVIV ScoutRoute makes it possible for anyone to contribute meaningful accessibility data, whether you walk, roll, use transit, or navigate with assistive devices.

What You Can Do With AVIV ScoutRoute

Using your phone, you can:

  • Survey sidewalks, crossings, and curb ramps
  • Identify barriers such as missing connections, obstructions, steep slopes, or unsafe conditions
  • Capture lived experience as structured data — not just comments or reports
  • Contribute observations that are verified, reusable, and actionable

Your contributions are recorded directly into shared data systems used by planners, agencies, and researchers — so your input is not lost in a report, but becomes part of an ongoing, maintained data record.

Designed for Accessibility First

AVIV ScoutRoute is built to work with:

  • Screen readers
  • Switch access and alternative input
  • Clear, structured prompts that do not rely on visual interpretation
  • Simple language and predictable navigation

Accessibility is not an add-on. It is foundational to how the app works and who it is for.

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Join a Team — or Map on Your Own

You can participate in AVIV ScoutRoute in different ways:

Team Challenges

If you are part of a school, workplace, or community group, you can join a team challenge and collaborate with others to collect high-quality accessibility data.

Teams compete based on:

  • Data completeness
  • Accuracy and verification
  • Coverage of meaningful routes and locations

Past participants include middle schools, public agencies, design firms, and technology companies — including teams from Vancouver, Washington and beyond. Even game developers have joined in. (Yes, Nintendo’s team crushed it last year.)

Individual Contributors

If you prefer to work independently, you can still participate. Individual contributors appear on the leaderboard and play a critical role in expanding coverage across communities.

Why This Matters

The data collected through AVIV ScoutRoute directly feeds into tools and systems that:

  • Help kids get to school safely
  • Improve access to public buildings and transit
  • Support better city, county, and state planning decisions
  • Strengthen accessibility data used across Washington State and beyond

You are not just giving feedback — you are shaping the data that shapes decisions.

Community in Action

AVIV ScoutRoute has supported community-led events across Washington, including collaborative walk audits coordinated with local governments, transit agencies, disability organizations, and advocacy groups.

These events bring together people with lived experience, planners, and decision-makers to ask a simple but powerful question:

Types of Quests

  • Sidewalk Information: Help identify sidewalk widths, surface materials, and the presence of handrails, ramps, and tactile paving.
  • Capture an Image: Provide a picture of a particular issue
  • Steps and Ramps: Provide details on steps, including incline, number of flights, and ramps.
  • Crossings: Determine the type of crossings, markings, and signals.
  • Bus Stops: Report on the lighting, presence of shelters, benches, bins, tactile paving, and even the names and references of bus stops.
  • Traffic Signals: Note if the signals have sound, buttons, or vibration features.
  • Amenities and Accessibility: Add information about amenities such as parking types, cycleways, and various accessibility features like bridge structures and railway crossing barriers.
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