Accessible Paths extension project

Free teaching and informational materials on inclusive architecture

Abstract

It presents part of the research of the university extension project Accessible Paths, from UNISUAM. It deals with Accessibility and Inclusion, and every product generated feeds the Student Virtual Environment and other digital media, such as social networks, improving free access to important information on accessibility standards, aiming at the elaboration of adequate, accessible and inclusive projects, so important for public health. It seeks to meet the needs of the community, enabling the production of new teaching materials suitable for collective and socially inclusive life, implementing new accessible, quality areas, in public and private free spaces. It also presents practical results from the implementation of two products for transforming academic environments into inclusive spaces. The first, a free spatial orientation tool, in short videos accessed through the institutional Virtual Environment, is produced by the project's students, which runs every six months. Second, accessibility manuals are already available on social media. The videos include subtitles, Brazilian Sign Language translation, and audio description, and the first is already available on social media. The importance of this extension for the civil society served is emphasized, regarding improvements in the quality of urban accessibility.