First of all, it’s important to distinguish every disability and learn the way to name each one correctly. We can’t refer to people with disabilities like “disabled person”, because they are not disabled, they have a disability. That’s why the correct term is “person with disability” or “person with a challenge” (visual challenge, hearing challenge, mobility challenge or reduced mobility …). This is a subtle difference, but it’s important to start to change the way people think about disability.
Recognizing that every kind of disability has its own specific characteristics which impede people to get full accessibility, there are however some common actions which can ensure a high level of accessibility for the highest percentage of this community. There is no doubt that the main difficulties are those related to architectural barriers and signposting both indoor and outdoor, however it’s relatively easy to adapt the way of building in order to allow an universal access which becomes in an improvement for everybody. Against many people think about, money is not the main problem. Building an accessible environment is not much more expensive than not to do it. Many times it's just a matter of willingness.
Recognizing that every kind of disability has its own specific characteristics which impede people to get full accessibility, there are however some common actions which can ensure a high level of accessibility for the highest percentage of this community. There is no doubt that the main difficulties are those related to architectural barriers and signposting both indoor and outdoor, however it’s relatively easy to adapt the way of building in order to allow an universal access which becomes in an improvement for everybody. Against many people think about, money is not the main problem. Building an accessible environment is not much more expensive than not to do it. Many times it's just a matter of willingness.
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