- From: Alan Cantor <acantor@oise.utoronto.ca>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 16:13:34 -0400 (EDT)
- To: IG - WAI Interest Group List <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
> First define disability. > IMO, before you can define Accessibility you must first define disability. OK. Here's my short definition: "Disability is a design flaw in the environment." Here's the long version, from a chapter in an upcoming book on web-based training: "People are not "disabled." A disability is a consequence of design flaws in the environment. Some individuals, due to accident, illness, or heredity, have difficulties performing -- or cannot perform -- certain tasks, such as moving their legs, seeing, hearing, talking, grasping or lifting. When these functional limitations are severe enough to adversely affect a person's performance, and the natural and human environments fail to accommodate their functional limitations, the individual is said to have a disability." You take your pick. If I were rewriting it, I would say something like this: ... ALL individuals, due to circumstance, accident, illness, or heredity, have difficulties performing -- or cannot perform -- certain tasks... Alan Alan Cantor Cantor + Associates Workplace Accommodation Consultants New e-mail address: acantor@interlog.com http://www.interlog.com/~acantor
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