What Accessibility Means to Us

Intentional reduction in barriers within physical and institutional spaces and infrastructure. 

For example: ramps, quiet hours for shopping/dimmed lights, etc. 

Ensuring social and cultural spaces are easier to navigate by overcoming the ingrained barriers and ‘unspoken rules’ that may not come intuitively to all individuals. 

For example: Giving neurodivergent individuals more time to respond and  allowing for individual responses (fidgets, tics ,lack of eye contact) to be expressed without external or internal judgment on that individual – such as those responses equating  to a lack of professionalism. 

and, Especially regarding Invisible disabilities- including mental health and neurodivergence- the enthusiastic effort to 

a) empower people to state their access needs

b) attentively listen to those needs

c) accommodate and address them.