Affirming Access provides safe and affirming restroom access for transgender, intersex, and gender nonconforming individuals.
Why is this important?
According to respondents of the US Transgender Survey:
- 59% avoided using a restroom for fear of confrontation
- 31% avoided eating/drinking to avoid restrooms
- 24% had their presence in the restroom questioned
- 12% were harassed, attacked, or sexually assaulted in a restroom
- 9% were denied restroom access
- 8% developed a kidney issue or UTI from avoiding restrooms
This project was completed as a project at Turing School of Software & Design during Module 3.
The goals and objectives were to use the technology we’ve been working with over the course of the module to demonstrate mastery React, Router, Asynchronous JavaScript, end-to-end testing with Cypress, and creating personas and user stories to describe a target audience.
A challenge was working out stubbing.
Big successes were Router, API calls, data cleaning, and getting stubbing to work.
Utilizes JavaScript, React, CSS, HTML/JSX, NPM, Node, Cypress, Normalizer, & Surge
Built with Visual Studio Code
Visit the site here.
To read more about the site, select "FAQ" at the bottom right of the page.
To access restrooms, the user must enter the zip code where they are located, choose whether or not to check the "Gender Neutral Only?" box, and then click "Search Now".
They will be presented up to five of the closest safe restrooms.
To do additional searches, they user just enters searches for another zipcode, using the steps above.
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I will implement 404 and 500 error pages.
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I will add geolocation.
Project completed by Hayley Witherell
Project designed by instructors at Turing School of Art & Design
APIs by Zippopotam.us & Refuge Restrooms