disability rights
Equal access movement
Disability rights are the legal protections and social principles ensuring people with disabilities have equal access to opportunities, services, and public life.
The movement emerged in the late twentieth century, drawing parallels to civil rights struggles: The Americans with Disabilities Act was a landmark victory for disability rights.
Advocates push for accessibility, accommodation, and an end to discrimination in employment, housing, and education.
- universal designCreating spaces usable by all
- barrier freeUnobstructed, accommodating all abilities
- closed captioningOn-screen transcription of audio
- equal accessUniform right to participate
- wheelchair rampsSloped paths for mobility devices
assistive technology · inclusive education · curb cut · lived experience · neurodiversity · service animals · adaptive devices · braille signage · inclusion · accessibility · educational accommodations · allyship · equity · ADA · reasonable accommodation · occupational therapy · activism · grassroots movements
- legal rightsright to silence, right to counsel, habeas corpus, right to vote, jury trial
- social issuesinequality, racism, poverty, illiteracy, homelessness
- activismboycotts, activists, activist, advocate, demonstrating
- rightscivil liberties, right, immunity, liberty, constitutional guarantees
- social causesfeminism, charity, environmentalism, volunteering, pacifism
- social movementswomen's liberation, labor movement, feminist movement, suffrage movement, environmental movement
disability rightsableism
Bias against disabled individuals
pity · paternalism · benevolence · dependency · institutionalization
disability rightsinstitutionalization
Establishing as norm or standard
segregation · disability discrimination · ableism · exclusion · inaccessibility
capacity, rights, disabled, capability, incapable, disability, incapacity, enabling, disabling