"The family becomes a caregiver just by default."
Sarah Shao on the FSHD origin story, the limits of the binary accessibility checkbox, and how the 0–100 score gives families the confidence to plan a meal out together.
Read the interviewGoogle Maps has an accessibility checkbox. It’s binary, often wrong, and tells you nothing useful.
A wheelchair user drives forty minutes to a restaurant marked “accessible.” There are three steps at the entrance. No ramp. The host offers to carry him in. That checkbox was clicked in 2019 and never verified.
David Sirota’s father has FSHD — facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy. Every dinner out starts with a phone call: Is there a step? Can a chair fit between tables? What about the restroom? That phone call is the product of a data gap that the entire tech industry ignored.
ROLLIN replaces that guesswork with data. A 0–100 accessibility score for every venue, built on six physical features, verified by a trust-weighted community of people with access needs, caregivers, and allies. The steps, the aisles, the restrooms — you see them before you leave home.
