Instrument that evaluates the accessibility of people with disabilities in urban equipment, case study in Manta

Investigation article

Abstract

The accessibility in urban and architectural spaces for public use for people with disabilities or reduced mobility is limited, which prevents the comprehensive inclusion of this group of individuals in society. The lack of awareness on the part of society and authorities has caused little control and non-compliance with the laws; generating inaccessible spaces for all human diversity. This research focuses on the study and situational diagnosis of the accessibility of urban facilities in the city of Manta, taking a public building as a sample to analyze the functional conception of all the elements that comprise it. The study proposes that by means of analysis and synthesis, the norms, regulations, conditions, criteria and fundamentals of universal or accessible design for people with disabilities are identified; In order to use the comparative and abstraction method - concretion that allows the development of a comprehensive evaluation instrument for the analysis of urban facilities and thus define their accessibility problems, guaranteeing an optimal diagnosis of buildings built and in the approval process, graphically, in order to achieve universality in its interpretation and understanding.

Keywords: accessibility, urban facilities, disability, inclusion, evaluation.