TITLE:
Assessment of Public and Private Buildings Accessible to People with Motor and Sensory Disabilities in the City of Yaoundé (Political Capital of Cameroon)
AUTHORS:
Fulbert Rodrigue Zogning Lontsi, Coco Bertin Mowa Wandjie
KEYWORDS:
Motor Disabilities, Sensory Disabilities, Accessibility, Buildings, Inclusion
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Access Library Journal,
Vol.9 No.4,
April
21,
2022
ABSTRACT: This study assesses the level of consideration accessibility during construction and renovation of buildings open to the public in Yaoundé city (the political capital of Cameroon). Despite the collection of textual data, this research required a field observation, on the edifices of departments concerned with this study. The study was carried out by reasoned choice. Two hundred houses have been sampled, that is one hundred and forty-two public constructions and fifty-eight private services open to the community. Three criteria were defined in the evaluation of the buildings selected for this study. These are accessibility measures linked to the external path and access to the establishment (considered at 35%), accessibility measures linked to the plane and upright interior path (noted at 35%), and methods implemented to promote access to information by people with disabilities (gauged at 30%). During the analysis, the average of the accessibility frequencies of the different groups of structures was calculated. The level of accessibility of specific buildings was obtained from the addition of the three standards (criterion 1 + criterion 2 + criterion 3 = 100%). The average total frequency of buildings in a specific area was being shot from the sum of the frequencies of single establishments out of the total number of establishments listed in that area. Given the results of the data processing, the total average frequency of accessible public and private buildings is 24.52% or 25.90% for public houses and 23.15% for private buildings. That result justifies the reason why the study concludes that the development, implementation, and triennial evaluation (at the level of municipalities) of program accessibility agendas are being identified as favorable alternatives for the construction of establishments open to the public and accessible to people with disabilities.