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L’accessibility it is often mentioned in the documents, in public speeches and in urban projects. But in the daily life to many people it remains an abstract concept, far away from the actual experience of those who move in the the spaces of the city.
HandiMap born to bridge this distance.
What is HandiMap and from which concrete need arises
HandiMap it is an online platform that allows you to report and map of the architectural barriersby making them visible, detectable, and shared. Transforms everyday experiences people useful information, accessible by all.
Comes from a’need very concrete: not having to ask if a place is accessible even before that we can live.
A need that is rooted in the direct experience of disability, but a slice of the much larger population: older people, parents with strollers, those who have a temporary disability, anyone who can meet with an obstacle in the public space.
HandiMap gives shape and visibility difficulties there are every day, but that too often remain ignored or considered to be marginal.
Accessibility as a principle of accessibility as a right practicable
L’accessibility it is often evoked as a value, but rarely translated into practical tools.
HandiMap acts on this step, allowing you to:
- report points that are not accessible
- display them on a map
- monitor them over time through the actions of confirmation, dispute and resolution.
In this way, theaccessibility ceases to be an abstract concept and becomes a real and verifiable, an instrument of knowledge, and shared responsibility.
A critical step to ensure that the the right to autonomy and mobility it remains only theoretical, but it is to be exercised in the daily life.
Starting from the direct experiences of people
Where he / she lives What barrier would you liketo overcome through sport?Partecipate and tell your story in the partecipate section of https:rightforinclusion.it or write to mail: info@rightforinclusion.it he knows the real difficulty.
The architectural barriers they are not only elements technical: are obstacles that limit time, relationships, autonomy, and opportunity.
From direct experiences means to transform the the difficulty of the individual in collective awareness, avoiding that critical issues remain invisible or isolated.
HandiMap born to give value these experiences, recognizing them as to know, useful for all community.
The barriers most reported barriers “trivial” that exclude
The reports mainly concern:
- steps
- sidewalks rough
- the absence of ramps
- inputs that are not accessible
- broken paths
- lifts not working
Obstacles seemingly small, but in the daily life they make a huge difference.
Common barriers that, cumulatively, build exclusion.
The role of HandiMap for Municipalities and institutions
For Municipalities and institutions, Handimap it can become a tool of listening concrete: a basis forcatch critical real, to monitor interventions and to guide the priority.
The data collected allow you to build policies that are more aware, based on the lived experience of the people, and not only on theoretical standards.
An approach that approaches public policy to the real needs of the territories.
What can make every citizen
Contribute to HandiMap it is simple and for all. Every citizen can:
- register to the platform,
- report barriers encountered, even if you do not live directly with a disability,
- confirm or challenge existing bug reports,
- use them as resolved when the intervention was carried out.
To participate means to take care of the common area, because accessibility is not about “some”, but the way in which a company chooses to include all and all.
HandiMap – The map of Accessibility
Call to action
Don't wait for someone to tell you if a place is accessible.
Make it visible. Report it. Share it.
HandiMap transforms the experience of the individual in the collective change.
Because the rights, to truly exist, it must be practiced every day.
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