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Accessibility requirements

Design and technical expectations ensuring services are usable by people with disabilities.

Plain English

The expectation that anything published or built can be used by people with disabilities, including with assistive technology.

If you’re new here

Not a final check before launch. Retrofitting it costs several times what building it in does, and it is the kind of gap that becomes a complaint.

What they probably mean

This has to work for everyone, and testing it late will hurt.

Interpretation offered as humour, not authoritative guidance.

Bureaucracy level

Easy · 2/5

How much government-speak this phrase carries. Playful indicator, not a judgement of anyone using it.

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