BATAS PAMBANSA BLG.
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Accessibility Law
• An Act To Enhance The Mobility Of Disabled
Persons By Requiring Certain Buildings,
Institutions, Establishments And Public
Utilities To Install Facilities And Other
Devices
Outside/Around Buildings
Minimum Accesibility Requirements
DROPPED CURB
• Changes in level walkways should be by a dropped curb.
• Dropped curbs should be provided at pedestrian crossings and
at the end of walkways of a private street or access road.
DROPPED CURB
• Dropped curbs shall be sloped towards the road with a
maximum cross gradient of 1:20 to prevent water from
collecting at the walkway.
• The lowest point of a dropped curb should not exceed 25 mm
from the road or gutter.
CURB CUT-OUTS
• Curb cut-outs should only be allowed when it will not
obstruct a walkway or in any way lessen the width of a
walkway.
• The minimum width of a curb cut-out should be 0.90 m.
• Curb cut-outs should have a gradient not more than
1:12.
WALKWAYS+PASSAGES
• Walkways should be kept as
level as possible and provided
with slip-resistant material.
• Maximum gradient: 1:20
• Maximum cross gradient:
1:100
• Minimum width: 1.20 m
WALKWAYS+PASSAGES
• Avoid locating gratings along walkways.
• When occurring along walkways, grating openings should
have a maximum dimension of 13 mm x 13 mm and shall not
project more than 6.5 mm above the walkway.
• Walkways should have a continuing surface without abrupt
pitches in angle or interruptions by cracks or breaks creating
edges above 6.50 mm
WALKWAYS+PASSAGES
• In lengthy or busy walkways, turning spaces or rest stops
should be provided at some point along the route so that a
wheelchair may pass another or turn around.
• These should have a minimum dimension of 1.50 m and
should be spaced at a maximum distance of 12:00 m between
stops.
WALKWAYS+PASSAGES
• To guide the blind,
walkways should
follow straightforward
routes if possible, with
right angle turns
WALKWAYS+PASSAGES
• Minimum walkway
headroom:2.00 m
• Adjacent plantings, street
furniture, bollards, sign posts,
columns, etc. should not
obstruct walkways or reduce
them to less than the
minimum required clearances.
HANDRAILS
• Handrails should be installed
at both sides of ramps and
stairs and at the outer edges
of dropped curbs.
• Handrails shall be installed at
0.90 m and 0.70 m above
steps or ramps.
• For protection at great
heights, they may be installed
at 1.0 m to 1.06 m
HANDRAILS
• A 0.30 m long extension of the
handrail should be provided at the
start and end of ramps and stairs.
• Handrails should have a width of
30 mm to 50 mm.
• Handrails attached to walls should
have a clearance no less than 50
mm from the wall.
• Handrails on ledges should have a
clearance not less than 40 mm
OPEN SPACES
• Where open spaces are
provided, the blind can become
particularly disoriented.
• Therefore, it is extremely
helpful if any walkway or paths
can be given defined edges
either by the use of planters
with dwarf walls, or a grass
verge, or similar, which
provides a texture different
from the path
SIGNAGES
• Signs should be located at points conveniently seen even by a
person on a wheelchair and those with visual impairments.
• Simple and easy to understand
• Uses contrasting colors and contrasting gray values
SIGNAGES
• The international symbol for access should be used to designate
routes and facilities that are accessible
SIGNAGES
• Signs on walls and doors should
be located at a maximum height
of 1.60 m. and a minimum
height of 1.40 m
• Signages labelling public rooms
and places should have raised
symbols, letters or numbers
with minimum height of 1 mm
• Braille symbols should be
included in signs indicating
public places and safety routes
CROSSINGS
• In order to reduce the exposure time to vehicular traffic, all at
grade crossing should
• Be as near perpendicular to the carriageway as possible.
• Be located at the narrowest, most convenient part of the
carriageway.
• Have central refuges of at least 1.5 m in depth and preferably 2
m, provided as a midcrossing shelter, where the width of
carriageway to be crossed exceeds 10 m.
CROSSINGS
CROSSINGS
• All crossings should be located close if not contiguous with the normal
pedestrian desire line
• Provide tactile blocks in the immediate vicinity of crossings as an aid to
the blind.
• The tactile surface has to be sufficiently high enough to be felt through
the sole of the shoe but low enough not to cause pedestrian to trip, or
to affect themobility of wheelchair users.
CROSSINGS
• Note: Tactile strips formed from
brushed orgrooved concrete
finishes have not been proven
successful as they do not provide
sufficient distinction from the
normal footway surface and
therefore should not be used.
• The most beneficial form of
crossing for PWDs is the light
controlled crossing with
synchronized audible signals.
CROSSINGS
• The flashing green period required for the
disabled should be determined on the basis of a
walking speed of 0.90 m/sec. (rather than 1.20
m/sec. which is what is normally used).
• The minimum period should not be less than 6
seconds or the crossing distance times 0.90
m/sec., whichever is the greater
PARKING
Minimum Accesibility Requirements
• Parking spaces for the disabled should allow enough space for a
person to transfer to a wheelchair from a vehicle.
• Accessible parking spaces should be located as close as possible to
building entrances or to accessible entrances;
• Whenever and wherever possible, accessible parking spaces should
be perpendicular or to an angle to the road or circulation aisles;
PARKING
• Accessible parking slots should
have a minimum
width of 3.70 m.
• A walkway from accessible
spaces of 1.20 m. clear width
shall be provided between the
front ends of parked cars
• Provide signages and never
locate the parking slot in sloping
areas.
INSIDE BUILDINGS
Minimum Accesibility Requirements
ENTRANCES
• Entrances should be accessible
from arrival and departure points
to the interior lobby.
• In case entrances are not on the
same level of the site arrival
grade, ramps should be provided
as access to the entrance level.
ENTRANCES
• Entrances with vestibules shall
be provided a level area with at
least a 1.80 m depth and a 1.50
m width
RAMPS
• Changes in level require a
ramp except when served by
a dropped curb, an elevator
or other mechanical device.
• Minimum clear width of
ramps: 1.20 m.
• Maximum gradient of ramps:
1:12
RAMPS
• The length of a ramp should
not exceed 6:00 m. if the
gradient is 1:12; longer ramps
whose gradient is 1:12 shall
be provided with landings not
less than 1.50 m.
• A level area not less than 1.80
m. should be provided at the
top and bottom of any ramp
RAMPS
• Handrails will be provided on
both sides of the ramp at
0.70 m. and 0.90 m. from the
ramp level.
• Ramps shall be equipped with
curbs on both sides with a
minimum height of 0.10 m.
RAMPS
• Any ramp with a rise greater
than 0.20 m. and leads down
towards a vehicular area should
have a railing across the full
width of its lower end, not less
than 1.80 meters from the foot
of the ramp.
DOORS
• All doors shall have a minimum clear width of 0.80 m
• Outswinging doors should be provided at storage rooms, closets and
accessible restroom stalls
DOORS
• Latching or non-latching
hardware should not
require wrist action or fine
finger manipulation.
• Doorknobs and other
hardware should be located
between 0.82 m. and 1.06
m. above the floor; 0.90 is
preferred.
DOORS
• Vertical pull handles,
centered at 1.06 m. above
the floor, are preferred to
horizontal pull bars for
swing doors or doors with
locking devices;
• Doors along major
circulation routes should be
provided with kick plates
made of durable materials
at a height of 0.30 m. to
0.40 m.
THRESHOLDS
• Thresholds shall be kept to
a minimum; whenever
necessary, thresholds and
sliding door tracks shall
have a maximum height of
25 mm and preferably
ramped.
SWITCHES
• Manual switches shall be
positioned within 1.20 m to
1.30 m above the floor
• Manual switches should be
located no further than 0.20
from the latch side of the door
CORRIDORS
• Minimum width of corridors:
1.20 m.
• Provide turnabout spaces with
a minimum area of 1.50 m x
1.50 m. spaced at a maximum
of 12.00 m.
• Turnabout spaces should also
be provided at a dead end or
within 3.50 m. of every dead
end.
TOILETS
• Accessible water closet stalls
shall have a minimum area of
1.70 m. x 1.80 m.
• Minimum number of PWD
toilet stalls (per sex):
• 1 if the number of water
closets is 20 or less 2 if the
number of water closets is
more than 20.
TOILETS
• The signage for men's
washroom door shall be an
equilateral triangle, 300 mm.
per side, with the vertex
pointing upward.
• The signage for the women’s
washroom shall be a circle with
a 300 mm. diameter.
• The totally blind could touch
the edge of the signs and
easily determine whether it is
straight or curved.
TOILETS
• Maximum height of water
closets: 0.45 m.
• Maximum height of flush
control: 1.20 m.
TOILETS
• Maximum height of
lavatories: 0.80 m.
• For lavatories, provide a
knee recess of 0.60- 0.70
m. high and 0.50 m. deep.
• Urinals should have an
elongated lip. The
maximum height of the lip
should be 0.48 m.