Oferta de acessibilidade na Prefeitura e Câmara de Vereadores do Município de Santa Rosa/RS no ano de 2017

Abstract

Accessibility is directly linked to the quality of life of people, where the right to come and go and free interaction among all are responsible for sheltering. Accessibility available to people with disabilities is no longer optional and has become explicit legal provision in legislation. Thus, the objective of this study is to analyze the accessibility in the city hall and the city council of Santa Rosa under the perception of the public managers. According to IBGE (2011), one of the justifications for this research is that almost half of the municipalities in Brazil, 42.6%, do not have any accessibility items in the buildings of their city halls, which is worrisome due to the obligation of that. The study was conducted with a descriptive approach of the single transversal type, of mixed nature. In the data collection , the public managers' perception was evaluated based on a questionnaire adapted from the instrument validated by Federal Audit Court, as well as semi-structured interviews were done to understand the factors that justify such perception with 12 municipal public managers. At the same time, a structured observation of the accessibility criteria was carried out in the city hall buildings and in the city council, in order to compare the implementation of accessibility with the current technical standards. The results point to a lack of accessibility compared to the current technical norms, because they are very broad and specific in many items, but the public managers also pointed to the lack of accessibility in the City Hall and in the City Council, especially in visually noticeable items such as signage, toilets and elevator. The City Hall is less accessible than the city council in the managers` perception, identifying 33.07% of accessible items and 66.93% of non-accessible items. The City Council already identified 46.61% of accessible items and 53.39% of non-accessible items. The qualitative step of the study sought to understand the results found in the quantitative stage, and identified as the main causes of the absence of accessibility the lack of available resources for accessibility policies, the low representativeness of the institutions representing Special Needs People (SNP), the low number of SNP circulating in the two improvements, and also because accessibility is a policy of minorities and not of masses. As a conclusion, the study indicated the need for institutions representing SNP to become more present in the formulation of public policies for accessibility, creation of resource lines only for accessibility actions, creation of actions to encourage the public SNP to attend more to the public improvements, and also the awareness that although they are minority policies, it is necessary to offer the right of access to all citizens.