The programme "Accessible environment" and assessment of its implementation by the disabled

Assessment of the efficiency of the State programme Accessible Environment for 2011-2015 should be made first of all by those people, for whom it is designed, i.e. by the disabled themselves through sociological surveys that is reflected in the target indicators of the programme. Among the tasks of the sociological survey on the quality of life in the city of Taganrog conducted by ISESP RAS in 2014 was to find out disabled persons’ assessment of the quality of barrier-free environment in the city. The article presents the survey data and an attempt to explain the obtained results both with the use of characteristics of the level and mode of life of the disabled and the analysis of the programmee Accessible Environment that is being implemented at all levels of the government and administrative authorities. A special consideration is given to the Taganrog municipal programme for 2014-2020, which is examined with the account of the activities held in the previous years. The authors draw a conclusion that the programme measures for accessibility of the social infrastructure objects have no complex character, and the measures for integration of the disabled to society contain no novations and take no account of the specific needs of different categories of the disabled.