SAP Concur Tokyo Employees Survey Ginza Accessibility via Wheelchair Experience
SAP Concur's Japan team took part in Mirairo Inc.'s "Bremen Survey Team" event, using the map-based accessibility app Bmaps to survey the Ginza area around its Tokyo office from a wheelchair perspective and post accessibility information. The event began with basic disability education, noting barriers affect not only people with disabilities but also the elderly, stroller users, and foreign visitors, and highlighting the "information barrier." Participants surveyed Ginza in groups, taking turns as wheelchair user and supporter, finding even slight slopes, height differences, and obstacles in passageways difficult; some older buildings lack elevators and have stepped surfaces of seven inche…