Tailorability

A design property, central to infrastructuring theory, that allows users to configure, extend, or repurpose a system after deployment to fit their local use context. Tailorability goes beyond 'customisation' by anticipating that users will adapt tools in ways their original designers did not foresee - and by leaving open hooks, APIs, and configuration surfaces that make such adaptation possible. In accessibility, tailorable systems reduce the access labor disabled users spend working around unyielding defaults.