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Home Page: Users can upload an image and add a small prompt describing the problem. Location data displayed if permission is given by user
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Social View: Users can view other problems in the area uploaded by other users. Users can also "Like", acting as an upvote function
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A sample email generated by Cohere AI that would be sent to a business in response to a broken staircase impeding customers
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
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