We Care...Access for Persons with Disabilities: Disabilities Act

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Disabilities Act

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Disabilities Act, 1995 was established on 7 th February, 1996. This Act was made to ensure the equal rights for all the disabled people and their active part in the building of the nation. The Act offers the promotional and preventive measures such as employment, job reservation, education, manpower and research development, vocational training, unemployment funds for the people with disabilities, creation of healthy environment and special insurance schemes for people with disabilities.

Main Rules and Regulations of the Disability Act

Education

This Act provides the various steps to seek free education. Some of the rights taken in field of education are:-

Disabled children shall be encouraged to free uniforms, books, learning material and scholarships.
Free education shall be provided to every disabled child up to 18 years in various schools.
Non-formal education shall be ensured for disabled children.
Changes in the checking system and building of study courses, elimination of construction discrimination and appropriate transportation shall be promoted for the children having disabilities.

Non-Discrimination

The Act also provides that disabled people should not be discriminated against any field. These people should have the following rights such as:-

Toilets shall be wheel chair accessible in all the waiting rooms and all public places.
Buses, public buildings, air-crafts and rail compartments should be designed in such a manner which provides an easy exit to the disabled people.
All the public utility places shall be made free of any discrimination by providing ramps.

Employment

The following steps were taken in regard to employment and they are:-

Appropriate plans shall be developed for the reduction of maximum age limit, training and welfare of disabled people and regulating the employment.
About 3 percent of all poverty reduction plans shall be reserved for the disabled people.
About 3 percent of government vacancies reserved for the disabled people and 1 percent vacancies for those people who suffer from hearing impairment, vision impairment etc.

Social Security

This Act provides various social security benefits to the disabled people such as:-

Insurance claim for the disabled government employees benefit
Financial assistance to non-government organizations for rehabilitation of disabled people
Provision for the disabled people with the allowance who are unemployed or who are registered in the employment exchange above one year

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Accessibility

Accessibility is a general term used to describe the degree to which a product (e.g., device, service, environment) is accessible by as many people as possible.

Accessibility can be viewed as the "ability to access" the functionality, and possible benefit, of some system or entity.

Accessibility is often used to focus on people with disabilities and their right of access to entities, often through use of assistive technology.

Several definitions of accessibility refer directly to access-based individual rights laws and regulations. Products or services designed to meet these regulations are often termed Easy Access or Accessible.

Accessibility is not to be confused with usability which is used to describe the extent to which a product (e.g., device, service, environment) can be used by specified users to achieve specified goals with effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction in a specified context of use.

Accessibility is strongly related to universal design when the approach involves "direct access." This is about making things accessible to all people (whether they have a disability or not). -wikipedia-

Disability

Disability is a lack of ability relative to a personal or group standard or norm. In reality there is often simply a spectrum of ability. Disability may involve physical impairment such as sensory impairment, cognitive or intellectual impairment, mental disorder (also known as psychiatric or psychosocial disability), or various types of chronic disease. A disability may occur during a person's lifetime or may be present from birth.

Disability may be seen as resulting directly from individuals, in which case the focus is typically on aspects of those individuals and how they could function better. This view is associated with what is generally termed a medical model of disability. Alternatively, the interaction between people and their environment/society may be emphasized. Here, the focus may be on the role of society in labeling some people as having a disability relative to others, while causing or maintaining disability in those people through attitudes and standards of accessibility that favor the majority (a prejudice dubbed "able-ism"). This view is commonly associated with a human rights or social model of disability. -wikipedia-