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With some 350,000 visitors with disabilities expected in Paris for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, the city is stepping up accessibility, particularly in the vicinity of Olympic venues. To help with this project, the city has called upon disability experts.
Lowering sidewalks, fitting traffic lights with sound systems, deploying guidance solutions for the visually impaired… These are just some of the projects that the City of Paris is committed to carrying out in the run-up to the Olympic and Paralympic Games. This will involve both structural improvements to urban spaces and temporary installations during sporting events.
Since November 2022, a panel of accessibility experts made up of members from five disability associations, as well as the Paris Tourist Office, Paris 2024 and event production agencies, has been meeting once a month to improve the experience of spectators and visitors with disabilities.
Five committed associations
CRAIF - Autism Resource Center Île-de-France
Unanimes - Union of national associations for the inclusion of the hearing impaired and deaf
Association Valentin Haüy - With the blind and partially sighted
APF France Handicap
Action handicap France - Disability training and awareness
Unanimes - Union of national associations for the inclusion of the hearing impaired and deaf
Association Valentin Haüy - With the blind and partially sighted
APF France Handicap
Action handicap France - Disability training and awareness
These associations are committed to contributing to various projects:
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Accelerating universal accessibility in Paris through the deployment of Quartiers à accessibilité augmentée;
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Hosting and supporting major international para-sport events in the region ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games;
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Raising awareness for the Paralympic Games and helping organize Paralympic Day in Paris;
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Developing para-sport for people with disabilities in Paris;
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Improving spectators with disabilities' experience;
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Improving visitors with disabilities' experience;
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Improving foreign delegations with special needs and journalists with disabilities' experience at the Paris Media Center;
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Creating volunteering opportunities for people with disabilities during the Games.
Initial discussions, as well as exploratory visits, have enabled us to identify the various obstacles that disabled tourists might encounter in Paris, and the levers that could be used to reduce them.
Paris improves accessibility to venues
Structural improvements
The main aim is to repair damaged pavements and make road crossings safer: lowering sidewalks, installing/redoing warning and guidance strips, fitting traffic lights with sound systems, clearing pathways, repairing pavement defects… This work has already begun.
Crédit photo :
Emilie Chaix/Ville de Paris
The City will make sure that these improvements become part of the Games' legacy for Parisians with disabilities. The aim is to make these areas more accessible for everyday use.
Temporary installations
Finally, everything linked to temporary installations and venues will be subject to improvements: compensating for obstacles and breaks in the pathways (sidewalk renovation, cable crossings, steps, slopes, etc.), installation of accessible signage, deployment of guidance solutions for the visually impaired, volunteers along pathways, urban furniture and spaces for rest, calm, freshness… These improvements began in spring 2024.
Crédit photo :
Guillaume Bontemps / Ville de Paris
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