Additional Definitions of Accessibility

1. "Providing accessibility means removing barriers that prevent people with disabilities from participating in substantial life activities including the use of services, products, and information." (GNOME Accessibility Project )
2. "Barrier-free design is a concise way of describing an accessible interface for people with disabilities." (Paddison & Englefield, 2004)
3. "Accessibility can be defined as the quality of a web site that makes it possible for people to use it- to find it navigable and understandable- even when they are working under limiting conditions or constraints." (Thatcher, 2002, p. 13)
4. "...accessibility is an aspect or quality of the individual user's experience of the Web site, not a property of the document itself." (Slatin & Rush, 2003, p. 7).
5. "Accessibility refers to the freedom or ability of an individual to obtain or make full use of a product or environment. A product is accessible to an individual with disabilities only if he or she is able to use it to carry out all of the same functions and to achieve the same results as individuals with similar skills and training who do not have disabilities." (Ballmer, 2001)

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