What is Accessibility

Accessibility is a basic characteristic of the built environment, is the condition that makes possible to arrive, entry, exit and use houses, shops, theatres, parks and work places (European Union, 1996 AU46: The in-text citation "European Union, 1996" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. ) and it allows people to participate in the social and economic activities for which they have been designed. It follows that, where there is a lack of accessibility, for example, with physical barriers, that people can suffer some degree of marginalization and, logically, a loss of quality of life with respect to others who do not suffer this lack, being worst for disabled persons (European Union, 1996 AU47: The in-text citation "European Union, 1996" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. ).

The quality of places that are easily reached or entered by any person, even if the person has reduced mobility.

Ensured the idea of accessing cloud services, data, and tools anytime anywhere.

It is the state of each user to have access to any information at any time.

The design of information systems such that they can be used by everyone, regardless of their ability or disability.

Any product, service, technology or environment is accessible and available to everyone, including individuals/learners with special needs.

The user’s ability to use products or services, despite their age, disabilities, or special needs, among other human conditions.

Ensuring access course materials to all learners.

In the learning object sense, ensuring that all information is versioned in multi-perceptual ways for the broadest available human use (for example, image information is made available in text format, which is machine/screen reader- and human-readable).

The theory that all students are able to read and interact with a given text so as to be able to understand a given and/or participate in the learning process.

The design of information systems such that they can be used by everyone, regardless of their ability or disability.

People, who have difficulties or limitations in mobility, in the communication or the understanding, can easily reach a place, object or service.

The ability for a tool to be utilized or accessed by everyone, or the ability for everyone to be able to participate in a program or meeting.

The “ability to access” something and take use of it is one way to define accessibility. The idea is to facilitate access for those with disabilities or to facilitate access through the use of assistive devices, although accessibility research and development helps everybody.

Access to resources, services, and opportunities; When referring to people with disabilities, “The same access to resources, services, and opportunities” as is afforded to people without disabilities (Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990, 1990 AU53: The in-text citation "Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990, 1990" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. ).

The possibility for a product to be used by the largest possible number of people, regardless of their technical or physical abilities.

Information and assignments that are available and capable of being used and understood.

Activities and resources designed with disability and accommodations in mind.

refers to the situation where the people have access to some Information and Communications services.

Accessibility is a subfield of human-computer interaction and deals with users with deficiencies. These deficiencies mostly lie in the perception capabilities. For example, users who cannot see or hear as well as other require special consideration during the implementation of user interfaces.

Extend to which a person can access and use an object, reach a place, or obtain a service.

The concept used to describe the degree to which practices and environments are able to be understood and utilized by people of differing abilities.

Knowing that the desired goal is reached without any obstacle.

Making system resources available to a wider user community regardless of their geographical locations or the physical capabilities of their access devices.

Accessibility describes the extent to which persons with special needs or people who use assistive technologies can use a product, like for example software.

Means of ensuring that people with visual, auditory, physical, speech, cognitive, and neurological difficulties can access electronic information, software applications, Internet, and so forth.

The extent to which a product or service is available to all people.

The ability to access. Often tied to people with disabilities (e.g., total blindness), accessibility thrives to break the barriers to information access. We follow the strict sense of accessibility by embracing any situation where the ability to access information can be disrupted by device or even surrounding environment constraints.

Refers to providing courses, programs, services, and activities that are accessible to all learners.

The ability to be present in a space and meaningfully engage in the space as it is intended to be used.

Health facilities, goods, and services accessible to everyone, within the jurisdiction of the state party.

Designing technology so that is suitable for all intended users, regardless of any physical, sensory or cognitive impairment.

The degree to which a system is usable by as many people as possible without modification and is characterized in terms of the ability of users to have physical access to the system, the nature of users’ interface with the system, and the ability to physically retrieve potentially relevant information.

How physically accessible a city is to tourists, regardless of any disability they may have.

The ability to fully participate in a course in regards to having access to the classroom, building, course materials, and course content.

The level to which as people as possible have access to a product, device, service, or environment according to their necessity.

Ensuring access course materials to all learners.

Enables a person with a disability to be 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 effective and equally integrated manner, with substantially equivalent ease of use (Section 508, 1998).

Requirement that characterizes projects, objects, device, services, settings, easily usable by every kind of user. In particular, it refers to the possibility for an individual with motorial, perceptive, and/or psychical disability to approach public services and cultural initiatives in conditions of safety and independence, in order to remove the so-called “barriers”, both architectural and perceptive, that represent the obstacles for an equal public dimension, that respects disabilities.

The state of being able to be accessed and usable.

“Ability to access” and benefit from some system or entity. The concept focuses on enabling access for people with disabilities, or special needs.

The extent to which an intervention can be used and understood by intended participants.

It refers to Cultural Heritage fruition and open access through “basin” connections, linked to the character of diffusivity of Heritage on the territorial dimension. It considers the classification of images and information generated by the intertwining of geographical and cultural crossroads, where a deeper relationship between sites and monuments belonging to the scale of the territory still emerges from the form of anthropic intervention on the landscape.

the property of a designed artifact to be usable, manipulable and undestandable by all people regardless temporal or permanent injuries or disabilities.

A facility that is easy to reach or use.

Conditions universally designed that enable everybody to fully participate in activities.

A set of features associated to a website which facilitates its use to all potential users whether or not they are disabled.

Accessibility to health care is a fundamental pillar of health policies and consists of the adjustment between the needs of users and the capacity of the health system to meet those needs, focusing on the process of seeking health services.

Capacity for users to easily access and comprehend any kind of content.

A legal standard to ensure that digital learning objects are presented in multi-sensory multi-perceptual ways (visual, auditory; textual, auditory; visual, textual; visual, symbolic; and other combinations).

The extent that products, devices, services, or environments are available to as many people as possible.

The practice of making products and services, spaces, information, and processes usable by as many people as possible.

Service accessibility considers how easily disabled persons can use the service.

Applied to the use of objects and technologies, and especially in relation to certain groups of people with functional difficulties, it means the benefits of interaction with the environment or other people. Accessibility enables people to participate in social activities for which designed the built environment.

Does the game allow for a player of any skill level to take part? Does the game scale in difficulty with the players increasing skills and abilities?

Meeting legal requirements for usability by those with disabilities in the senses such as sight, hearing, mobility, and others.

Locating objects, access to them and get them easily from a remote location.

The quality of being easy to use or get information from.

As defined within Section 508, accessibility is achieved when individuals with disabilities can access and use information technology in ways comparable to those available to people without disabilities. A narrower, operational definition conceptualizes accessibility in terms of conformance to certain accessibility criteria such as the web content accessibility guidelines or the access board standards .

Refers to a consumer’s entrance point into the luxury product category, introducing four levels – inaccessible, intermediate, accessible, and mass accessible. Accessibility to luxury goods can vary based on the consumer’s points of reference.

Usability of a product, service, environment, or facility by people with the widest range of capabilities.

The guarantee that any resource, by any means, is able to be reached or acquired by everybody, with or without disability.

In this context it means to give all citizens access to governmental information and processes

Proactive approach applying principles of universal design in order to reduce barriers for people with disabilities so they may participate more fully in everyday functions to which they have a right.

A facility that is easy to reach or use.

The degree to which devices and services are adapted for people with disabilities, so they can use, understand, and interact with their interfaces.

In general, it is about approachability. In particular in the context of the web developments (World Wide Web Consortium), it relates to the standards for making it inclusive, equitable for all; thereby removing the barriers, and ABIDE being exclusive to the haves.

The ease of attaining information and services offered through an e-government channel.

Possibility of accessing a certain thing or facility to do so.

The ability of a system or a piece of information to be accessible, that is, universally accessed by all kind of users. The term is normally focused on people with dissabilities. When refered to IT systems it is called e-Accesibility

The possibility given by television to guarantee informative content, interaction ways, and navigation processes adequate to any user, no matter his or her capabilities and skills, hardware, and software configuration. In particular, accessibility addresses to people with disabilities (physical and intellectual), who are traditionally excluded by the Information Society.

Capable of being reached.

The design of apps, devices, materials, and environments that support and enable access to content and educational activities for all learners. Also applies to accommodating the individual learning needs of students, such as English language learners, students in rural communities, or students from economically disadvantaged homes.

Is defined as: the potential the user has to interact with a product or system.

The ease in which people with disabilities, people from different geographic regions and people having different internet connections could access the websites.

Ability of an object to be used regardless of the capacity and condition of a person.

The concept includes the transport, the work of the microenterprises that provide services, the household appliances. In the case of the urbanism, the accessible buildings and infrastructure and the environment where people spend most of their time.

People with disabilities can perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with the Web, and they can contribute to the Web.

refers to technology and behavior characteristics that help people with disabilities to use and access computers.

The availability of good health services within reasonable reach of those who need them and of opening hours, appointment systems and other aspects of service organization and delivery that allow people to obtain the services when they need them.

Accessibility is a general term used to describe the degree to which a system is usable by as many people as possible. In this chapter, it means the course content materials and activities are accessible to students.

The quality of being easily reached, universally grasped or appreciated.

As used here, includes: usability and possibility of independent physical access and movement; and perceptibility, referring to the way one perceives, understands the environment.

A subdomain of usability; enables people with disabilities to experience success and satisfaction with software to a degree comparable to that experienced by people without disabilities.

A term interchangeably used with ‘usability’ or even ‘availability’, but its core meaning is the extent to which a system can be used successfully and comfortably by users with disabilities or special needs.

The extent to which a product (or robot) can be used without discrimination and equivalent user experience by the users in a specific context of use.

The practice of making information, activities, and/or environments sensible, meaningful, and usable for as many people as possible.

“The usability of a product, service, environment or facility by people with the widest range of capabilities” (ISO TS 16071).

non-discriminatory access to telecom services

The ability to easily navigate and move about in the environment. Usually thought of in terms of the architecture of buildings, but since the recent advent of the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), has been expanded to include the architecture of the World Wide Web and, per Section 508 (NCD, 2001), all electronic and information technology.

The ability to access. Often tied to people with disabilities (e.g., total blindness), accessibility thrives to break the barriers to information access. We follow the strict sense of accessibility by embracing any situation where the ability to access information can be disrupted by device or even surrounding environment constraints.

The degree to which a system is usable by as many people as possible.

Access features embedded in materials for individuals with disabilities (e.g., text to speech, speech to text, read aloud feature, multiple font sizes, and closed captioning).

Applied to people with disabilities, accessibility allows people to participate with activities and content, including being able to perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with technology.

Characteristic of the environment and the resources that allows a better interaction between people and places, things, or services, reducing existing barriers.

It means the physical availability of health services to those who need them.

The designing of course content in a manner that ensures that all students can learn the material and meet the course learning objectives.

Design of items, experiences, services, or environments to support individuals with disabilities.

The concept of accessible design, the ability to access and to use services, spaces, or products.

The ease with which an e-government medium may provide information and services.

Capable of being reached; capable of being read with comprehension; easily obtained; easy to get along with or talk to.

The capability given to as many people as possible to access and use products, systems, services, devices, and environments, regardless of their physical or technological abilities. Assistive products are essential means to facilitate the access and participation of a person with special needs in different fields, allowing different activities to be carried out.

Accessibility refers to the availability of a product, service, application and facility for use by as many people as possible. In an online environment, the term can be treated as the ability to access and navigate. The notion of the term often centers on people with disabilities and their right to access to and benefit from the use of information technologies.

Design of controls and presentation formats to accommodate disabled and mobile learners.

Accessibility is the set of characteristics and factors that facilitate communication, access and enjoyment for all citizens in the world.

As computers increasingly take over business record-keeping tasks, the accuracy or correctness of information gains actual significance for society.

The degree of psychological openness and rapport, and emotional involvement one person feels towards another during a one-on-one interaction.

All learners can use courses in a range of contexts of use, including mainstream and assistive technologies; to achieve this, courses need to be designed and developed, considering technical and learning design aspects, to support usability across these contexts.

The usability of an application for users with disabilities who often use assistive tools and different modalities of interaction (only text, no audio, keyboard instead of mouse…)

The ability to access and benefit from a system or entity. The concept focuses on enabling access for people with disabilities or special needs.

Ability to allow individuals with different capabilities and limitations to gain comparable access and use of information or resources.

The goal of making any place or process usable by individuals with disabilities or challenges; in this context, making the Internet and computer technology usable for older adults with physical or cognitive limitations.

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 (U.S. Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights, 2013 AU33: The in-text citation "Office of Civil Rights, 2013" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. ).

The extent to which an institution is readily approachable and usable by individuals who have been previously disadvantaged for being Black and/or students with disabilities.

The possibility provided to disabled people to benefit from all the facilities of the community they belong to.

Within this case study accessibility was related to the content development and ensuring that all communication, PowerPoint slides and word documents were fully compliant in terms of accessibility legislation.

The state in which course materials and technology can be used equitably by all students, regardless of students’ abilities or identities.

Capability of reaching destinations. It can be assessed at different levels of transport network or system based on various metrics (distances, time, money, other quality factors).

Area of information control involved with the ability to obtain data.

A way of designing physical/digital/virtual spaces, products, environments, and devices for stakeholders with various disabilities. This chapter complicates this notion by asking the readers to think beyond disability, and to also consider issues of socioeconomics, gender, race, and learning preference, all of which informs how users engage with content.

Measurements for spatial distribution and disparities of opportunities to access for specific individuals that mainly deal with spatial impedance between demand and supply, and the availability of services.

The degree to which the information for a program or course can be used by students-with-limitations.

Accessibility is the provision of a website to the greatest number of consumers.

The extent to which the expected readership can retrieve information when they require it.

The state of being consumable by people who experience disabilities.

In the context of the ‘new economy’, the concept is understood as the set of complex conditions that make access to the cultural sphere really possible.

Must make available to all users all the information, regardless of their physical characteristics, in other words, must provide the right access to the websites.

Capability of reaching destinations. It can be assessed at different levels of transport networks or systems based on various metrics (distances, time, money, other quality factors).

Accessibility in the sense considered here refers to the design of products, devices, services, interactive system, or application so as to be usable by people with disabilities.