accessibility

English

Etymology

From accessible +‎ -ity, after Late Latin accessibilitas, from Latin accessibilis.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əkˌsɛs.əˈbɪl.ɪ.ti/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• (US) IPA^(key): /əkˌsɛs.əˈbɪl.ə.ti/, [əkˌsɛs.əˈbɪl.ə.ɾi]

Noun

accessibility (usually uncountable, plural accessibilities)

1. The quality of being accessible, or of admitting approach; receptiveness.

   Antonym: inaccessibility

   • 2021 May 19, David Clough, “Swiss precision meets UK growth”, in RAIL, number 931, page 57:

     He says the company's FLIRT design, in particular its retractable steps, provides greater accessibility, while the technology is highly innovative and reliable.

3. (computing, web design) Features that increase software usability for users with certain impairments.

   Synonym: a11y

   • 2007, Accessibility of WVU Websites for Individuals with Vision Impairments, ProQuest, →ISBN, page 4:

     The purpose of this study is to measure West Virginia University's website accessibility for students and users who are blind or visually impaired and compare that measurement to the measurement of other websites of […]

Usage notes

Not to be confused with assessability.

Derived terms

• bioaccessibility
• immunoaccessibility
• unaccessibility

 

Translations

the quality of being accessible, or of admitting approach

• Azerbaijani: əlçatanlıq
• Bulgarian: достъпност (bg) (dostǎpnost), достижимост (dostižimost)
• Catalan: accessibilitat (ca) f
• Czech: přístupnost f, dostupnost f
• Danish: tilgængelighed (da) c, adgangsforhold
• Dutch: toegankelijkheid (nl) f
• Esperanto: alirebleco
• Faroese: atkomuviðurskifti
• Finnish: esteettömyys (fi), saavutettavuus (fi); julkisuus (fi) (of documents)
• French: accessibilité (fr) f
• Galician: accesibilidade (gl) f
• German: Zugänglichkeit f, Barrierefreiheit (de) f, Erreichbarkeit (de) f
• Hungarian: hozzáférhetőség (hu)
• Icelandic: aðgengileiki m, aðgengismál n pl
• Italian: accessibilità (it) f
• Macedonian: пристапност f (pristapnost)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tilgjengelighet m or f

• Polish: dostępność (pl) f
• Portuguese: acessibilidade (pt) f
• Russian: доступность (ru) f (dostupnostʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: dostupnost (sh), pristupačnost (sh)
• Spanish: accesibilidad (es) f
• Swedish: tillgänglighet (sv) c, åtkomlighet (sv) c
• Turkish: ulaşılabilirlik
• Vietnamese: (tính) tiếp cận, khả năng tiếp cận

feature that increases software usability

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 無障礙／无障碍 (zh) (wú zhàng'ài)

• Czech: přístupnost f
• Finnish: saavutettavuus (fi) , helppokäyttöisyys
• German: Barrierefreiheit (de) f
• Icelandic: aðgengileiki m
• Macedonian: пристапност f (pristapnost)
• Portuguese: acessibilidade (pt) f
• Russian: специальные возможности pl (specialʹnyje vozmožnosti)
• Vietnamese: trợ năng (vi)

Further reading

• accessibility on Wikipedia.Wikipedia