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GLOSSARY

Accessibility Giving equitable access to everyone along the continuum of human ability and experience. Accessibility encompasses the broader meanings of compliance and refers to how organizations make space for the characteristics that each person brings.

Affirmative action Legislation and policies that support members of disadvantaged groups, called protected classes, that have previously suffered discrimination in such areas as education, employment, or housing. Taking affirmative action means that the organization will set goals to correct inequities in their systems that have systemically disadvantaged the protected groups based on race, gender, age, religion, nationality, color, creed, and in some states sexual orientation.

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