Write a paragraph on disability and challenges faced by a person.
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isabled people are large minority groups, starved of services and mostly ignored by society, live in isolation, segregation, poverty, charity and even pity. Disability includes blindness, low vision, leprosy-cured, hearing impairment, loco motor disability, mental retardation and mental illness. Due to discrimination they do not go to public places and not free to get those rights which a non-disabled person gets. They are deprived of education and employment.
Persons with disabilities in South Africa continue to face barriers that prevent them from enjoying their full civil, political, economic, social, cultural and developmental rights. This is largely due to lack of awareness, ignorance and prejudice in our society. It is also because some legislation fails to protect the rights of persons with disabilities.
Mainstreaming and universal access for persons with disabilities are the ultimate goals of the disability movement. This means the removal of all cultural, physical, social and other barriers that prevent persons with disabilities from equally accessing opportunities and participating fully in all aspects of life in South Africa. Persons with disabilities lack access to employment opportunities and even if they are able to get employment they face problems such as reasonable accommodation at work, accessible public transportation to get them to work and back and discrimination and ignorance about their potential at work.
ACCESSIBILITY
What is accessibility
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). An alternative is to provide indirect access by having the entity support to use of a person’s assistive device technology to achieve access (e.g. screen readers).
Accessibility is a term used to describe the degree to which a product, device, service, or environment is available to as many people as possible. Accessibility can be viewed as the ability to access and benefit from some system or entity. Accessibility is often used to focus on people with disabilities or special needs and their right of access to entities, often through use of assistive device.
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Health: ...
Education: ...
Employment: ...
Accessibility: Physical accessibility in buildings, transportation, access to services etc still remain a major challenge.
Discrimination/Social Exclusion