Accessibility
Accessibility is equal access for people with disabilities to any environment, movement, information or communication. It means that a person with a disability should be able to use a product or service to access society at the same level as a person without a disability.
Examples of accessibility include:
- Buildings that have access ramps for people in wheelchairs or motorised scooters
- Close captioning on television and subtitles on DVDs for people who cannot hear
- Sign language that allows deaf people to communicate other people
- Braille for people with a vision impairment to help them read books
- Modified computer software and hardware that allows people with a disability or disabilities to access the Internet and use a personal computer
The word accessibility is used in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, mostly in article 9.
Having accessible ramps and parking is very important for the people who struggle with disabilities.
Accessibility Media
The public transport system in Curitiba, Brazil, offers universal access.
Beach accessibility: ramp and mobi-mat enable wheelchair users to visit a sandy seashore.
This opportunity fair in Birmingham, West Midlands, was organised to help people with disabilities and their carers find out what services, support and opportunities are available to them.
William P. Milton Jr., Deputy Director of the Office of Human Resource Management, outlined the 'Four Simple Steps to Hiring Qualified Candidates with Disabilities' to employees of the U.S. Department of Agriculture during a 2011 National Disability Employment Awareness Month event in Washington, D.C., United States.
A wheelchair accessible taxi with a rear ramp, Tokyo Motor Show 2009
Existence of wheelchair ramps allows those on wheelchairs or personal mobility devices to board low-floor public transport vehicles
Tactile paving can assist the visually impaired as they walk.
Accessibly designed modification for a high-step entrance
A teacher helps her student in an orphanage in central Vietnam. The orphanage caters to many abandoned and disabled children who, through education and communication programs, are able to have a life that would otherwise not be possible.
