Task · part of 4. Do ONE of the following options
4(A). Option A, Access: two sites, ten observations
Optional May not apply
Visit TWO of the four locations and take notes on accessibility. Five things that could be done to improve the site and five things that make it friendly to people with disabilities. A walk round with a notebook, needing nobody's time but your own.
Notes and warnings
Warning. ONE AMBIGUITY WORTH SETTLING BEFORE YOU START RATHER THAN AFTER. This option asks you to visit TWO locations, and then asks for five things that could be improved and five things that make "the site" friendly, in the singular. Ask your counselor whether that means five and five for each of the two sites, or five and five overall. It is the difference between ten observations and twenty, and it is much easier to ask at the beginning than to go back to a place and look again. Whichever answer you get, take more notes than you think you need while you are there: an access observation is very hard to recall accurately afterwards, and a photograph, where photography is permitted, settles most arguments.
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Where this step comes from
- Disabilities Awareness Merit Badge Requirements (Merit Badge Hub, last modified 2025-09-19), Requirement 4(A) · The option asks for examples of five things that could be done to improve upon the site and five things about the site that make it friendly to people with disabilities.