Acessa PCD-DF: desenvolvimento de aplicativo para avaliação de acessibilidade para pessoas com deficiência física em equipamentos sociais públicos de esportes

Abstract

Assistive Technology resources are essential for the lives of people with physical disabilities. However, aims to provide greater independence, quality of life and social inclusion. Even though they have been created laws, decrees and regulations, studies indicate that there are serious problems related to the realization of rights, due to the lack ofsupervision.This study has as general objective to propose an assistive technology of accessibility’s evaluation prescribed by law, to be carried out by the users themselves and destined to the general public, aiming at the realization, knowledge and appropriation of the rights related to the accessibility of people with physical disabilities. The specific objectives are: a) to develop protocols with questions, requirements and indicatorsto evaluate the availability, operation andquality of accessibility for people with physical disabilities in public sports social facilities; b)design, program, develop and test an application (Accessa-PCD-F) for smartphones, for community assessment of accessibility for people with physical disabilities in public sports facilities. To compose the theoretical framework, authors who discuss the themes werwresearched accessibility and pseudo-accessibility are used, as well as theorists who debate democracy and the subject's social participation. Wait, as a result, that the use of technologies to assess accessibility for people with physical disabilities propicie quality in the practice of performing sports with quality of life, in an attempt to better understand how this is guaranteeing the equal rights of all citizens. As for the nature of the research, it is based on fundamental research (bibliographic research) associated with experimental development research. It is believed that building an application for Android system smartphones, for mapping, information and evaluation of the availability/quality of accessibility for people with physical disabilities represents an achievement, considering that there is still much to be done for people with physical disability feel fulfilled and enjoy their rights as any and all citizens.