From May 19 to 25, 2025, the National Accessibility Week is being held in Ukraine for the first time - a large-scale initiative aimed at forming a culture of accessibility in society.
In 2021, at the initiative of the First Lady of Ukraine, Olena Zelenska, the National Strategy for Creating a Barrier-Free Space in Ukraine for the period until 2030 was adopted. The document provides for the creation of a barrier-free space in Ukraine in six main areas:
• Social and civic accessibility, which involves ensuring equal opportunities for participation of all people and social groups in the life of communities and the state.
• Educational accessibility – creating equal opportunities and free access to education, including lifelong education.
• Economic accessibility – ensuring conditions and opportunities for employment and entrepreneurship for youth, women, the elderly, people with disabilities, etc.
• Information accessibility – conditions under which people, regardless of their functional impairments or communication capabilities, have access to information in various formats and using technologies that take into account their needs and capabilities.
• Physical accessibility – creating an environment in which public buildings and public spaces, transportation, and services are physically accessible to all social groups.
• Digital accessibility – ensuring access to information, communication, public and other online services for all social groups, including the elderly, people with disabilities, people living in rural areas, etc.
Ensuring barrier-free access is about creating an environment that is accessible and comfortable for all citizens: children, people with disabilities, pregnant women, senior citizens, people with strollers, etc.
The Central Library of the Public Library of the Kyiv City State Library joined the events of the Accessibility Week and held an informational conversation with library readers "We are equal - we are different.".
