On some occasion I was walking through the streets of this city and in a bus stop I heard two people arguing about the fact that Tijuana was a very inaccessible city for people with disabilities, as far as infrastructure is concerned, that is, lack of ramps., very narrow sidewalks, light tensioners in the middle of the sidewalks among others that they mentioned in their talk.
Later in my house I began to reflect on the concept of accessibility, I thought if this concept was only limited to infrastructure or if it was a concept that could be universal, one that could be applied to all aspects to which it or can be connected human being. Regarding its definition of universal accessibility, we could find a good definition such as the following: It is the condition that environments, processes, goods, products and services must meet, as well as objects or instruments, tools and devices, to be understandable, usable and practicable by everyone in conditions of safety and comfort and in the most autonomous and natural way possible. It assumes the "design for all" strategy and is without prejudice to reasonable accommodation to be adopted.
As we could see in the previous paragraph, accessibility should not be seen only as urbanization and infrastructure, but everything that the human being requires to have a full development in a Biopsychosocial context, so that in theory it can develop its full potential. And for this you must have access to information, quality education, equal opportunities, among others.
So we must ask ourselves, How far behind is our city of Tijuana in terms of accessibility? To answer this question, in principle it would be enough to just go out and see what is happening around us, turn to see as every day, the reality to which parents are exposed, such as: When they have to look for a work that is not very well paid, which means that your family does not have access (or they have only half) to certain services that are vital: such as electricity, drinking water, information, education, health among other things And do not say when a person living with a disability needs, requests their rights and access to their basic needs, it happens that at the time of acquiring or being born with a disability it seems that their rights are annulled,as if it were another species or that due to the fact of having a deficiency (be it motor, auditory, visual, intellectual) it should detract from what a human being is. In the same way, as we have already mentioned before, people who do not live with disabilities, too, are always presented with obstacle after obstacle due to poor infrastructure and unequal opportunities.
People with disabilities face this and are even discriminated against because of their disability and the great ignorance that is breathed in society, so we can clearly say that it is a problem which has its roots in the Society itself, the same one that suffers from the lack of accessibility is also to blame for the lack of it, because although the different spheres of government are responsible and in charge of eliminating barriers so that human beings have access to the wide range of possibilities that promote their integral development, it is worth mentioning that it is well known that governments are incompetent and ignorant in terms of human rights (that they are nothing more than the rights inherent to them by the simple fact of being born are for everyone without exception of race, religion,gender or disability) tend to create many regulations, laws and treaties. On the other hand, we have people who do not work in government tend to build archetypes, for example the spots that some institutions launch showing children with disabilities and their precarious way of living, which creates an image and in the same society what later we It leads to creating a collective unconscious that is nothing more than the created image which forms an idea or a stereotype.On the other hand, we have people who do not work in government tend to build archetypes, for example the spots that some institutions launch showing children with disabilities and their precarious way of living, which creates an image and in the same society what later we It leads to creating a collective unconscious that is nothing more than the created image which forms an idea or a stereotype.On the other hand, we have people who do not work in government tend to build archetypes, for example the spots that some institutions launch showing children with disabilities and their precarious way of living, which creates an image and in the same society what later we It leads to creating a collective unconscious that is nothing more than the created image which forms an idea or a stereotype.
From what has already been stated above, we could say that society is inaccessible starting with the terms used to refer to people with disabilities, pejorative terms such as disabled, visually impaired, among others, since words build, words destroy, give or take away opportunities and it is here where accessibility takes shape since based on these words opinions are formed and opinions are formed in the ways in which society is built. Society also becomes inaccessible when its members become indifferent, that in addition to words the way in which we educate our future citizens, always educating them to outreach to others, because we are all different, that the sum of every human being must be the purchasing power,In other words, the more material goods the human being has, the more his value as a person increases.
Although it is true that there are great campaigns, organizations and others that promote equality, companionship, empathy etc. Values that promote the growth of societies since an educated society is a society that develops rapidly and is closer to an ideal state and although it sounds like a guajiro dream, a utopia.
In conclusion, society is the one who builds, destroys, creates accessibility as well as puts up barriers that prevent accessibility, this is how this server, as well as all of us who share in this space called Tijuana, have the obligation to generate a change, that from this moment we create a better society fighting hand in hand.
