The document was created as a response to the challenges facing local government in the 21st century. The program integrates issues at the intersection of social, economic and economic life and helps to solve the problems facing an increasing number of Polish citizens. The Accessibility Program is a response to the needs of the City – its residents and visitors.
As part of the implementation of the project financed by the EEA Financial Mechanism 2014-2021 and the state budget titled “Jasło – my city, my home”, a comprehensive accessibility audit of the City Hall in Jaslo (UMJ) and subordinate units was carried out on behalf of the City of Jasło from July 2 to August 31. The Accessibility Program is the sum of observations, collected data and conclusions drawn at the stage of conducting and developing the results of the accessibility audit.
The key idea of the document is to foster accessibility – the ability of users with different needs and abilities to use infrastructure, transportation, information and communication technologies and systems, products and services. In particular, it allows people with disabilities and the elderly to use them on an equal basis with others. The most important part of the idea, therefore, is the creation of conditions that will realistically improve accessibility in the broadest sense, rather than just being the realization of purely theoretical facilities that disabled people will not use anyway.
All new activities undertaken by the City Hall in Jasło, organizational units and employees, take place with respect for the principles described in the document.
Existing solutions to date are to strive to achieve these requirements, and where this is not possible, provide alternative access within the meaning of Article 7 of the Accessibility Act.
The result of the project is the development of municipal accessibility standards for the City of Jasło, i.e. a set of requirements and guidelines describing how to design and implement investments, activities, services available to all, so that every user can use them in the form of “Accessibility Program for the City of Jasło” – a document of 172 pages. The implementation of the project influences the shaping of the city space so that it is as accessible as possible to all its residents, taking into account different needs and abilities based on age and fitness. The implementation of the audits made it possible to examine deficits in accessibility and to draw conclusions that constitute an action plan for improving the provision of accessibility for the City Hall in Jasło and subordinate organizational units for the coming years.
