Defining Accessibility

Definition 5: "easily used or accessed by people with disabilities: Adapted for use by people with disabilities."

Merriam Webster.

The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Education defines accessibility as meaning “when a person with a disability is afforded the opportunity to acquire the same information, engage in the same interactions, and enjoy the same services as a person without a disability in an equally integrated and equally effective manner, with substantially equivalent ease of use.”

Understanding the Definition of Accessibility (American Consortium for Equity in Education)

Defining Disability

"To be protected by the ADA, one must have a disability, which is defined by the ADA as a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities, a person who has a history or record of such an impairment, or a person who is perceived by others as having such an impairment."

Introduction to the Americans with Disabilities Act (U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division)