Handbook
Accessibility and Independent Living Intelligence
Identify environmental, information, service, technology, and attitudinal barriers and co-design accommodations that support participation, autonomy, and safety.
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Definition
Identify environmental, information, service, technology, and attitudinal barriers and co-design accommodations that support participation, autonomy, and safety.
Coverage role
Accessibility affects every life domain; treating it as cross-cutting prevents exclusion and supports independent participation.
Scope
Included
- barrier analysis
- functional goals
- accommodation planning
- assistive option comparison
- digital and document access
- home work school and travel adaptation
- support navigation
Excluded and non-goals
- diagnosing disability
- prescribing or fitting medical devices
- assuming goals or limitations
- reducing autonomy
- making legal guarantees
Boundary rules
- Route to life.accessibility-independent-living when the requested outcome requires one or more declared capabilities and the output can be represented by its canonical artifacts.
- Route to an adjacent or specialist intelligence when domain-specific rules, tools, or professional authority dominate the problem.
- Use general.reasoning to coordinate multi-pack conflicts, hard constraints, uncertainty, and decision status.
- Return ask, defer, or escalate when required context, source authority, consent, or accountable ownership is missing.
Capability semantics
| Capability ID | Name | Semantic intent |
|---|---|---|
capability.life.accessibility-independent-living.identify_barriers |
Identify Barriers | Map physical sensory cognitive communication digital social policy and financial barriers. |
capability.life.accessibility-independent-living.define_participation_goals |
Define Participation Goals | Capture what the person wants to do how independently and in which settings. |
capability.life.accessibility-independent-living.design_accommodations |
Design Accommodations | Generate environmental procedural scheduling communication support and technology options. |
capability.life.accessibility-independent-living.compare_assistive_options |
Compare Assistive Options | Compare compatibility training maintenance privacy cost funding and fitting needs. |
capability.life.accessibility-independent-living.prepare_accommodation_request |
Prepare Accommodation Request | Draft a functional-needs brief requested changes alternatives evidence and source references. |
capability.life.accessibility-independent-living.review_accessibility |
Review Accessibility | Assess content interfaces documents spaces journeys and services against applicable standards and user goals. |
capability.life.accessibility-independent-living.navigate_support_services |
Navigate Support Services | Identify verified public employer education health and community supports. |
Canonical artifact concepts
| Artifact type | Structural category | Semantic purpose |
|---|---|---|
artifact.life.accessibility-independent-living.barrier_audit |
analysis | Barrier Audit for Accessibility and Independent Living Intelligence: An evidence-linked assessment that states criteria, findings, uncertainty, limitations, status, and action. It supports the pack purpose of identify environmental, information, service, technology, and attitudinal barriers and co-design accommodations that support participation, autonomy, and safety. |
artifact.life.accessibility-independent-living.participation_goal_map |
model | Participation Goal Map for Accessibility and Independent Living Intelligence: A purpose-bounded representation of entities, relationships, assumptions, boundaries, and evidence of adequacy. It supports the pack purpose of identify environmental, information, service, technology, and attitudinal barriers and co-design accommodations that support participation, autonomy, and safety. |
artifact.life.accessibility-independent-living.accommodation_option_set |
portfolio | Accommodation Option Set for Accessibility and Independent Living Intelligence: A deliberately varied set of candidates with lineage, constraints, screening state, and selection rationale. It supports the pack purpose of identify environmental, information, service, technology, and attitudinal barriers and co-design accommodations that support participation, autonomy, and safety. |
artifact.life.accessibility-independent-living.assistive_option_matrix |
comparison | Assistive Option Matrix for Accessibility and Independent Living Intelligence: A normalized comparison that applies hard constraints before preferences and preserves evidence, uncertainty, dominance, and sensitivity. It supports the pack purpose of identify environmental, information, service, technology, and attitudinal barriers and co-design accommodations that support participation, autonomy, and safety. |
artifact.life.accessibility-independent-living.accommodation_request_brief |
brief | Accommodation Request Brief for Accessibility and Independent Living Intelligence: A bounded specification of purpose, stakeholders, requirements, constraints, assumptions, and success criteria. It supports the pack purpose of identify environmental, information, service, technology, and attitudinal barriers and co-design accommodations that support participation, autonomy, and safety. |
artifact.life.accessibility-independent-living.accessibility_review |
analysis | Accessibility Review for Accessibility and Independent Living Intelligence: An evidence-linked assessment that states criteria, findings, uncertainty, limitations, status, and action. It supports the pack purpose of identify environmental, information, service, technology, and attitudinal barriers and co-design accommodations that support participation, autonomy, and safety. |
artifact.life.accessibility-independent-living.support_service_plan |
plan | Support Service Plan for Accessibility and Independent Living Intelligence: A governed action design that sequences work, ownership, dependencies, timing, contingencies, and review. It supports the pack purpose of identify environmental, information, service, technology, and attitudinal barriers and co-design accommodations that support participation, autonomy, and safety. |
Method families and limits
| Method ID | Method | Use when | Avoid when |
|---|---|---|---|
method.life.accessibility-independent-living.person_environment_fit |
person-environment fit | Use when participation depends on interaction between a person, task, environment, interface, support, and changing context. | Avoid assuming one impairment profile, choosing assistive options without the person, or treating minimum compliance as evidence of usable participation. |
method.life.accessibility-independent-living.universal_design |
universal design | Use when participation depends on interaction between a person, task, environment, interface, support, and changing context. | Avoid assuming one impairment profile, choosing assistive options without the person, or treating minimum compliance as evidence of usable participation. |
method.life.accessibility-independent-living.co_design |
co-design | Use when participation depends on interaction between a person, task, environment, interface, support, and changing context. | Avoid assuming one impairment profile, choosing assistive options without the person, or treating minimum compliance as evidence of usable participation. |
method.life.accessibility-independent-living.task_and_participation_analysis |
task and participation analysis | Use when participation depends on interaction between a person, task, environment, interface, support, and changing context. | Avoid assuming one impairment profile, choosing assistive options without the person, or treating minimum compliance as evidence of usable participation. |
method.life.accessibility-independent-living.standards_based_review |
standards-based review | Use when a claim, requirement, artifact, process, model, or system needs bounded evidence of conformance and fitness for intended use. | Avoid self-certification by the generator alone, tests without traceability to claims, or a pass status that omits untested scope and residual risk. |
method.life.accessibility-independent-living.assistive_technology_lifecycle_comparison |
assistive-technology lifecycle comparison | Use after infeasible alternatives are removed and several legitimate criteria or trade-offs remain. | Do not use before hard constraints are applied or without accountable ownership of criteria, weights, thresholds, and risk appetite. |
Pack-specific invariants
The pack also inherits the core invariants in core/core_invariants.yaml.
| Invariant ID | Statement | Failure action |
|---|---|---|
invariant.life.accessibility-independent-living.01_the_affected_person_defines_goals_and_trade_offs |
The affected person defines goals and trade-offs. | fail_or_repair |
invariant.life.accessibility-independent-living.02_accessibility_is_assessed_in_real_context_and_with_user_te |
Accessibility is assessed in real context and with user testing where possible. | fail_or_repair |
invariant.life.accessibility-independent-living.03_safety_critical_devices_or_changes_require_qualified_revie |
Safety-critical devices or changes require qualified review. | fail_or_repair |
invariant.life.accessibility-independent-living.04_rights_and_duties_are_verified_locally |
Rights and duties are verified locally. | fail_or_repair |
Dependencies and relations
Operational general intelligences: None
Foundation concepts: general.spatial-structural, general.practical-procedural, general.communication-explanatory, general.ethical-normative, general.tool-computational
Life intelligences: None
Source roles
| Source ID | Claim roles | Runtime resolution required |
|---|---|---|
un.crpd.accessibility |
concept_definition | True |
w3c.wcag |
concept_definition, interoperability_or_formal_contract | True |
ec.digcomp |
competence_framework, concept_definition, evaluation_dimension | True |
local.authority |
jurisdiction_rule, runtime_fact, service_or_community_context | True |
Risk and authority boundary
Risk class: high
- Clinical or mobility-device fitting.
- Structural electrical fire or major home changes.
- Rights discrimination or benefit disputes.
- Immediate safety risks.
Accountable people retain consent, value, regulated, irreversible, and residual-risk decisions. This semantic page does not claim a deployed implementation.
Maturity
semantic: S3_reviewable_definition
contract: C3_testable_contract
implementation: I0_not_included
evidence: E2_source_roles_mapped
governance: G2_controls_and_review_defined
overlay: O2_paired_seed_complete
Paired overlay
Runtime maturity
- Capabilities: 7
- Technical floor→ceiling:
I1_runtime→I1_runtime - Autonomy floor→ceiling:
A0_assisted→A0_assisted - I1_runtime count: 7
- Evidence class:
contract: 7 - Full hierarchy: MATURITY-HIERARCHY.md
Evaluation suite status
- CI status:
pass - Suite:
evaluation_suites/accessibility-independent-living.yaml - Cases defined: 7
- Capabilities under test: 7