Yes, it's because if I go in it [wheelchair], I believe so because it works... it's all full of those little lumps, right? It doesn’t go only one way [...] (Subject 1). |
No, I had [difficulty]... I would go there to the port and from there I would walk holding on. From one side the other. (Subject 2). |
No. They are ramps, but they are not accessible ramps, they are not accessible at all. Sometimes it's a wide plank they put for us to cross over there. (Subject 12). |
No, but when, there is no accessibility. [...] there is no accessibility for a wheelchair user to enter without someone carrying it, even on the vessel itself, you know, there are usually two “passadisse”, right, first and second, then when we go on the second one, we have to carry it because there's no accessibility, it's just a normal staircase, only for physically fit people, for wheelchair users there isn't. (Subject 16). |
It's difficult [...] Because there isn't one, then it's difficult to get off the boat, see? (Subject 6). |
No [...] I need to be carried to be able to put me on the chairs. I have to stand up, I have to go over the bridge, so I have to go down the stairs, I need to be carried [...] (Subject 5). |
Guiding question: In areas where people circulate (e.g. corridors), could anyone walk without difficulty?
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[...] where I sat, I stayed. But if you needed it, it wasn't difficult. [...] Well, depending on the situation, there would be [difficulty]. (Subject 2). |
No [...] Even because the chair only comes in at the beginning, there are two armchairs in the front. Behind it, there is no way to enter. (Subject 3). |
Look, the boat has a part that allows me to use my chair to go to the bathroom [...] then the boat has something for me to go to the bathroom, I have to go back [...] Sometimes I stay in the back and sometimes they tell me boot, in front according to the passages. (Subject 8). |
Only people who are normal, wheelchair users cannot, there is no space. (Subject 20). |
Guiding question: Were the toilets on the vessel easily accessible and would anyone be able to use them without difficulty?
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Everyone would be able to. (Subject 17). |
No. [...] it wasn't difficult... the other express they had was wider, the chair even reached the bathroom, access was good. But not these others [...] this one, none of these the chair can get close. (Subject 3). |
I never used it because of having to get on the boat and sit there until I got to Belém [...] (Subject 5). |
[...] Very little, because there are no conditions, you know? [...] No, it's not, for me a wheelchair user. For you to have an idea, a chair like that doesn't even go into the bathroom. [...] it is complicated! I think, I just said to you and I repeat, we are not respected as wheelchair users, right? (Subject 7). No, the toilets are not accessible, they think it is [accessible], the owner of the vessel thinks it is, but it is not. The ramps are always horrible, sometimes they put it like... it's like a... a speed bump that they put on the door of the toilets that are hard to get in, hard to get out of and inside there's no... there's nothing for you to hold on to, there's no wheelchair for you to take a shower, there's nothing. (Subject 12). |
I don't use the bathrooms, because they are not accessible. (Subject 18). |
Guiding question: Was the vessel's cabin easily accessible and could anyone use it?
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No, no... We can't get in the door if we don't have help, it's so high, there's no accessibility in the cabins or in the suites. (Subject 12). |
Neither. The bathroom inside was also small, the door was this small and the walker... I'm glad my walker is the one that closes so I can move it [...] (Subject 11). |
Yeah! [...] On the second trip, it was more difficult on the second because I stayed on the second floor, right, in the second-floor cabin of the vessel. [...] Suspending myself for “those” machines like that, right? Did you understand? [...] then, to be able to enter, you have to carry the chair because there is always that space in front of the cabin, then you cannot get in, but to move around, yes, if a chair could enter, understand? (Subject 14). |
Look... anyone can use this cabin, because it's at the bottom, right, on the ferry. Then... it's at the bottom of the ferry, it's easier to get off, to board, to disembark, because if... at the bottom it has one more “priority” for the wheelchair users to be walking, there's no way up there, that one goes up to the top of the cabin, there's no way to get out of the inside, right [...] Look... the way I am, it's a little difficult inside the cabin because it stays... there are two beds, right, one on the bottom and one and up, then it gets bad for me, it's “moving” to, to... to bed, I have to have help from... when it's my wife's turn, my sister's turn to pull me up. (Subject 12). |
Guiding question: Could the seats on the boats be used by anyone without difficulty?
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No, because they have, now they have a wheelchair for the disabled, right? Regret that they don't respect the law, you know? They do not respect the law [...] (Subject 4). |
I think that for everyone these seats are no good. Yeah, but we have to go, sis [...] there's a separation for wheelchair users now [...] (Subject 7). |
Yeah, they're not... it's difficult because for people who are wheelchair users [...] it's difficult [...] it's not appropriate, you know, even people who aren't wheelchair users complain that it's not comfortable. (Subject 6). |
Very uncomfortable. If [the person] has a problem in the spine, they don’t use it, I already have a problem in the bones, I get all sore [...] (Subject 5). |