CÓRDOBA / 7th June 2021
GOOD PRACTICE GUIDE FOR ACCESSIBLE SIGNAGE IN BUILDINGS
The researcher José Manuel Mera Gómez, CEAPAT technician and member of the Healthy Architecture & City research group at the University of Seville, has played an important role in the drafting of the new ‘Guide of good practices for accessible signage in buildings‘, contributing his knowledge and innovations in the field of architecture and accessibility.
The new guide unifies criteria when it comes to signposting spaces so that in all public buildings in Andalusia similar spaces are signposted with identical pictograms. This manual is a useful document for those people and organisations interested in tools and procedures to make their environments more accessible, whatever they are and wherever they are located. The basic conditions of universal accessibility and non-discrimination aim to ensure that all people can use buildings and their surroundings independently and safely by facilitating good orientation and movement within spaces. For this reason, one of the objectives of this guide is to break down some of the cognitive barriers in buildings.
This document, presented in Cordoba by the Regional Minister for Equality, Social Policies and Reconciliation, Rocío Ruiz, has been promoted by the Directorate General for People with Disabilities and Inclusion of the Andalusian Regional Government. The new Guide has been drafted by a working group created in 2019 which has been formed by staff from different departments of the Andalusian Regional Government, city councils and associations of people with cognitive disabilities with the aim of designing, jointly, a catalogue of pictograms to be used in the signage of public buildings, also extensible to the case of those of a private nature. This working group has been coordinated by the head of the Accessibility Department of the General Directorate of People with Disabilities and Inclusion, Ana Isabel Carpio, and has counted with the collaboration of the entities: Autismo Sevilla, Autismo Andalucía, Plena Inclusión, Instituto de Lectura Fácil, CEAPAT and the Laboratory of Diversity, Cognition and Language of the Department of Developmental Psychology and Education of the University of Seville.
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