Accessibility in public buildings in the municipality of Barbacena-MG: religious temples

Abstract

This article approaches the accessibility in the public buildings – religious temples – in the municipality of Barbacena/MG. This matter comes across as utmost importance, once that it intercepts one of the most basic human rights: the right to come and go. Therefore, it aimed the analysis of the buildings’ current situation in terms of adequacy in the Associação Brasileira de Normas Técnicas’s (ABNT) 9.050 standard’s guidelines. The analysis was accomplished through a bibliographic review and, later, through a field research by making use of a checklist based on the ABNT’s 9.050 standards. It verifies that the studied buildings, in their majority, remain not adapted, which need implementations related to visual, audible and tactile signage, as well as building aspects connected to the circulation and access to environments and services.