RapidReport

Background

For Deltahacks 2025 we decided to focus on accessibility and community building. We noticed there are many places where accessibility needs are not met and saw how tedious the process was when asking for a change so we decided to streamline a process where we are doubly able to rapidly report accessibility needs.

Idea

Our idea was to create an application that could be used on your browser or phone that would allow you to quickly take a picture of an accessibility issue and a short message describing what the issue is.

Rapid Report would then automatically find the relevant recipient (government, business, etc) and generate a professional email to automatically send.

Users would also be able to "like" issues so that more pressing accessibility needs would be met quicker.

Accessibility

Our app allows for users with all types of accessibility needs (visual, auditory, cognitive, physical, etc) to report issues with ease through considerations like screen readers, colour schemes, and more We made sure our app was simple enough to use so that anybody no matter their abilities or knowledge levels would be able to use it After a deep search we were not able to find any applications like ours (at most we found an accessibility map but no report feature)

Community Building

Through our "social view" we are able to connect a wide community of people with accessibility needs so that they can voice their needs on a platform that cares We believe our project will be a helpful business in getting a broader perspective of the needs of others with our app

Resources

Cohere AI Used to generate a professional email from the user's accessibility issue Explored using the RAG system to find business emails through giving data with the google search api

Google APIs

Used google's geocode api to locate the closest business to the user's current location allowing for potentially quicker reports Experimented with google's places api to find data on the closest business to a certain location

Perplexity AI

Experimented with perplexity's search-augmented chat api to find business emails and names based on an address

Other

NextJS Typescript Tailwind CSS

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