Measuring Accessibility for People with a Disability

Church, Richard L.; Marston, James R.

doi:10.1111/j.1538-4632.2003.tb01102.x

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“…It was evident that those living in isolated rural communities and those with poorest health had most problems. Many other studies have shown that the local environment is key to participation in community life (Hine & Michell 2001; Church & Marston 2003), but our data reveal the key role that environment makes to connectedness, and how this factor can be either a facilitating or constraining factor of QoL.…”

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Determinants of quality of life for older people living with a disability in the community

Murphy

Cooney

Shea

et al. 2009

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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Determinants of quality of life for older people living with a disability in the community

Murphy

Cooney

Shea

et al. 2009

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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“…Due to their lack of knowledge of disability issues, DFPP have not adequately disseminated information to educate colleagues in government about the needs of PWD, particularly the need for accessibility of the built environment. Professionals such as architects, engineers, lawyers, planners, occupational health officers and physiotherapists (Useh, Moyo & Munyonga 2001), who are viewed as experts on the accessibility needs for all (Church & Marston 2003; Evcil 2009), also have a responsibility to promote accessibility. Architectural design problems were identified here in various areas of the built environment: roads, bus stations, office buildings, churches, sports clubs, shops, banks, educational and health institutions, where the needs of PWML were not met.…”

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Impact of inaccessible spaces on community participation of people with mobility limitations in Zambia

Banda-Chalwe

Nitz

Jonge

2014

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BackgroundThe study investigated the perspective of people with mobility limitations (PWML) in Zambia, firstly of their accessibility to public buildings and spaces, and secondly of how their capacity to participate in a preferred lifestyle has been affected.ObjectivesFirstly to provide insight into the participation experiences of PWML in the social, cultural, economic, political and civic life areas and the relationship of these with disability in Zambia. Secondly to establish how the Zambian disability context shape the experiences of participation by PWML.MethodA qualitative design was used to gather data from 75 PWML in five of the nine provinces of Zambia. Focus group discussions and personal interviews were used to examine the accessibility of the built environment and how this impacted on the whole family’s participation experiences. The nominal group technique was utilised to rank inaccessible buildings and facilities which posed barriers to opportunities in life areas and how this interfered with the whole family’s lifestyle.ResultsInaccessibility of education institutions, workplaces and spaces have contributed to reduced participation with negative implications for personal, family, social and economic aspects of the lives of participants. Government buildings, service buildings, and transportation were universally identified as most important but least accessible.ConclusionZambians with mobility limitations have been disadvantaged in accessing services and facilities provided to the public, depriving them and their dependants of full and equitable life participation because of reduced economic capacity. This study will assist in informing government of the need to improve environmental access to enable equal rights for all citizens.

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“…Some previous studies created websites to collect UGC data sets (Church and Marston ; Rashid et al ; Huang and Gartner ; Huang et al ; Neis and Zielstra ). However, they are not applicable for our research because they do not cover the entire world and they are specifically created for their particular applications.…”

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Multi‐Domain User‐Generated Content Based Model to Enrich Road Network Data for Multi‐Criteria Route Planning

Khoshamooz

Taleai

2017

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By utilizing today's web‐based technologies, people can act as sensors and share their perceptions, emotions and observations in a variety of data forms, such as images, videos, texts, Global Positioning System (GPS) trajectories and maps. These forms are collectively called user‐generated content (UGC). These data are in different domains and have a multi‐modality nature. Although recent efforts have probed the acquisition of local knowledge by using single‐domain UGC data in specific applications, such efforts have not thus far presented a model considering multi‐domain UGC specifically to enrich road network data. This article aims at presenting such a model wherein, with the help of each data domain of UGC, one aspect of people knowledge about the road segment is obtained. These different aspects of knowledge are integrated using a Skyline operator to support multi‐criteria route finding. We name this model ERSBU (enriching road segments based on UGC). In ERSBU, road segments are basic spatial units, and their subjective properties have been extracted by using available UGC. The scenic score for each road segment was computed by using geo‐tagged Panoramio photos. The accessibility level of each road segment to different facilities was calculated based on data captured from Wikimapia and OpenStreetMap. Moreover, for measuring the movement popularity of each road segment, Wikiloc and Everytrail GPS trajectories were utilized. For the implementation of the ERSBU model, Tehran region 6 was considered the case study area. The Evaluation of the results proved that road segments that achieved a high score based on knowledge extracted from UGC also mostly gained top scores by analyzing traditional maps. ERSBU allows users to accomplish more‐qualitative path finding by considering the multi‐view characteristics of road segments.

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Measuring Accessibility for People with a Disability

Cited by 80 publications

References 34 publications

Determinants of quality of life for older people living with a disability in the community

Determinants of quality of life for older people living with a disability in the community

Impact of inaccessible spaces on community participation of people with mobility limitations in Zambia

Multi‐Domain User‐Generated Content Based Model to Enrich Road Network Data for Multi‐Criteria Route Planning

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