Ride Access
Ride-by-ride accessibility, from the operator's own guide.
Every major park operator publishes a per-attraction accessibility guide as a PDF. They run to dozens of pages, no two are laid out the same way, and none of them can be searched. Ride Access reads those guides and makes them answer one question: which attractions here work for the people I am travelling with.
It works with no signal. Everything is inside the app.
It never decides whether anyone can ride. It restates what the park requires and names the rule that stands in the way for each person — the judgement stays with you and the park. It is not any operator's app, it does not predict eligibility for any accommodation pass, and it is not live: every record shows the date of the guide it came from, and parks change rules mid-season. Confirm anything that matters at Guest Services before you queue.
Which parks are covered
This release covers five parks and 143 attractions. A park that is not in this table is not covered — which says nothing at all about what its rules require.
| Park | Operator | Attractions | Guide dated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cedar Point | Cedar Fair | 66 | 1 April 2026 |
| Universal Studios Florida | Universal Orlando Resort | 23 | 4 October 2025 |
| Islands of Adventure | Universal Orlando Resort | 22 | 4 October 2025 |
| Volcano Bay (water park) | Universal Orlando Resort | 17 | 1 January 2025 |
| Epic Universe | Universal Orlando Resort | 15 | 22 May 2025 |
Not covered, and the app says so on its first screen
Walt Disney World publishes its ride-by-ride rules as a fold-out guide map with no readable text in it. There is nothing there to read without guessing, and guessing is the one thing this app will not do. Disney's Disability Access Service rules are covered under Passes, written from documents read directly.
Cedar Point Shores publishes separately from Cedar Point and has not been parsed yet.
What each operator publishes is different — and that shows
Cedar Point gives you the restraint type and an unambiguous transfer rule. Universal gives you sensory warnings, service-animal rules and prosthetics, and no restraint type at all. Rather than flatten the two into a single tidy schema, the app shows what each operator actually published and stays silent where one of them does not.
Every park has a What this guide covers panel listing the fields its operator publishes and the fields it never mentions, and every attraction lists the fields its own guide leaves blank. A blank is not the park saying no, and not the park saying yes. It is the park not saying.
How the data is made
The operator's guide is downloaded, its per-attraction pages are parsed, and its warning pictograms are matched against the guide's own printed symbol key — so a label is the publisher's wording rather than anyone's reading of a drawing. Records are cross-checked against the height table at the back of the same guide, and a set of them is verified by hand against the page before any build ships.
Where a guide is genuinely ambiguous, the app says so rather than picking an answer. Universal, for one, draws "must transfer to the ride vehicle's seating" and "must be able to walk independently" with the same pictogram.
The guides are the operators' copyrighted publications. Ride Access extracts facts from them and links to the operator's own copy from the About screen. It never hosts or reproduces them.
Reporting a rule that looks wrong or out of date
This is the most useful thing you can do, and it is welcome. Guides are reissued mid-season and a parsed corpus goes stale; the people standing at the ride are the fastest detector there is.
Write to yiwenluo2ad@gmail.com with the park, the attraction, and what the sign or the attendant actually said. If you can, say which guide you are looking at and its date — the app shows both on every record and on the About screen.
Common questions
Why does a ride say "the guide does not say"?
Because that operator's guide does not address that point for that attraction. The app will not fill the gap with another park's rule or with an inference. Ask at Guest Services.
Why is a height listed as a maximum?
Because the guide printed it as one. Volcano Bay's Runamukka Reef, for instance, sets 54″ as the largest a slide rider may be. Reading every number as a minimum would have excluded every child that play area exists for.
Does it tell me whether we qualify for an accessibility pass?
No, and it never will. Universal's Attractions Assistance Pass, Disney's Disability Access Service and Cedar Point's Attraction Accessibility Program are the operators' decisions to make. The Passes tab explains how each programme works and what it asks for, each written from the operator's own document with its date.
Does it need a signal in the park?
No. There is no network code in the app at all. Every park, rule and guide date was built in before it shipped.
Privacy, in one line
No account, no analytics, no network code. Everything you record about the people travelling stays on your device, and the app's About → Your data screen shows you exactly what is held, exports it as plain text, and deletes it on request. The full policy is on the privacy page.
Accessibility
The app supports VoiceOver, Dynamic Type through the accessibility sizes, Reduce Motion, Increase Contrast and Differentiate Without Colour, and Voice Control. Every list row carries rotor actions for saving a ride, marking it ridden and writing a note without opening it. If something is unusable with an assistive technology, that is a bug worth reporting — please write.