The availability of a facility, program or service to integrate all persons, regardless of any mobility, vision, hearing, learning or other impairment to assure all persons have the opportunity to achieve similar experiences. See also Accessibility
The right and ability to receive a comprehensive, uniform, and affordable set of confidential, appropriate, and effective health services. Universal service is a reality in countries with national medicine programs or socialized healthcare, such as the UK, Canada, France and most countries in the world. Few countries have the private insurance programs as the primary form of healthcare, as in the US. See Universal Coverage.
web sites that are accessible to everybody
Universal access/access for all: to information and communications technology (ICT). Also used in assistive technology to refer to specialist interfaces and control devices to make ICT products accessible to people with high levels of impairment.
a policy of government to make telecommunications services available, at affordable prices, to as many people as possible through common points or end-user facilities such as libraries, schools, health-centres, community centres, public call offices and pay-phones. This policy also applies to advanced information services, for instance the provision of Internet services and applications such as tele-education, tele-medecine and electronic commerce.
Internet access for everyone, including people who have been previously disadvantaged and people with disabilities.
The idea that all things (on the Internet) should be accessible by the largest audience possible, regardless of disability, location, device, or speed of connection to the Internet.
Universal Access refers to the ability of all people to have equal opportunity and access to a service or product from which they can benefit, regardless of their social class, ethnicity, background or physical disabilities. It is a vision, and is some cases a legal term, that spans many fields, including education, disability, telecommunications, and healthcare. It is tied strongly to the concept of human rights.
