The Accessibility of Disabled People in the Sports Arena of Semarang City

Sports arena as the public facility should be able to be relished by the entire communities, including the disabled people who have a hobby in sports. The laws which regulate the public facility for this community have been considered as ineffective due to many public facilities that still unable to fulfill the standard required. The ease of access provided for disabled people aims to facilitate them who have the interest towards sports for accessing the sports arena by utilizing the technology aimed at disabled people access. It might be possible if the ease of access provided for disabled people will make them as great athletes that will compete in the special sports of disabled people at international level. In this research, the method used is a descriptive method by observing the research object and comparing the standard for disabled people that has been regulated in Indonesian National Standard (SNI). The result expected from this research is the implementation of disabled-friendly access for disabled people on public facility designing especially sports arena.