Wholeness

Wholeness is a core principle of the 10 Principles of Disability Justice articulated by Sins Invalid: the recognition that 'each person is full of history and life experience' and has inherent worth outside capitalist notions of productivity. It challenges medical-model framings that reduce disabled people to functional deficits to be corrected and resists accessibility practices that measure success only by how closely disabled users can approximate non-disabled norms. In design, wholeness asks practitioners to treat disabled users as complete people with interests, relationships and aesthetics rather than as trainees in remediation programmes.