Yelp adds 8 searchable accessibility business attributes

Yelp at this time launched eight new enterprise attributes which you can add to your web page to assist individuals with disabilities uncover your native enterprise.

The brand new attributes. Yelp added the next:

Mobility accessibility attributes:

• Accessible parking close to entrance 
• ADA-compliant most important entrance
• ADA-compliant restroom
• No steps or stairs

Listening to accessibility attributes:

• ASL proficient
• Closed captioning on TVs (for eating places, meals, and nightlife companies solely)

Imaginative and prescient accessibility attributes:

• Braille menus obtainable (for eating places, meals, and nightlife companies solely)
• QR code menus obtainable (for eating places, meals, and nightlife companies solely)

add the attributes. Merely edit the Enterprise Info part of your Yelp for Enterprise account.

What it means. Anybody can search Yelp utilizing phrases like [Wheelchair accessible], [ASL proficient], or [Braille menus] to seek out companies which have added these attributes. The attributes seem on Yelp enterprise pages below a brand new Accessibility part.

What it appears like. Yelp shared this screenshot:

Why we care. Folks with mobility, listening to or imaginative and prescient accessibility wants now have a straightforward method to search Yelp to seek out native companies that may accommodate them.

What Yelp is saying. Akhil Kuduvalli Ramesh, SVP of Product, Yelp, mentioned:

• “To assist individuals uncover and join with nice native companies it’s vital that they will decide if these companies will accommodate their wants, particularly in the case of accessibility. With these new accessibility attributes, we’re excited to assist companies extra clearly point out their inclusive practices to make it even simpler for individuals to seek out the suitable enterprise for them.”