For our final project in the last course of Western's GIS track, we worked together as an entire class to map the accessibility of the Huntoon trail in the Sehome Arboretum on campus. This project expands upon the work of WWU's Mapping Accessibility Project, which is a collaborative project between professor Francisco Laso and undergraduate/graduate students. This project had previously been completed once before by the GIS IV class of winter 2023, so our goal was to expand and improve upon their work. 

We divided the work into seven main groups: data collection, static maps, web maps, StoryMap, data analysis, audio transcriptions/Mapillary, and quality control. I decided to work on the static maps and to do quality control for the report (proofreading, editing, etc). 

Our goal for the static maps was to make them simple and accessible for visually impaired and color blind individuals. We chose to use a simple, accessible font (Tahoma), a black and white background, larger font sizes and symbology, and a color blind-friendly color palette. We didn't want to crowd/complicate our maps with multiple variables, so we chose to create six maps: a reference map, obstacles, trail material, points of confusion (such as a trail intersection), slope, and points of interest.