Interdependent Accessibility

A framework for understanding accessibility as a collective, co-created responsibility rather than an individual accommodation. Interdependent accessibility recognizes that access is produced through relationships and collaboration between disabled and non-disabled people, rather than being something provided to a disabled person by others. This approach contrasts with models that treat accessibility as an individual burden on the disabled person or as a one-way accommodation from institutions. In practice, interdependent accessibility means that all team members share responsibility for creating accessible workflows, processes, and outputs, and that this access work is properly recognized, resourced, and valued as real labor.