Page "Disability Discrimination Act 1995" Paragraph 20

" Reasonable adjustment " or, as it is known in some other jurisdictions, ' reasonable accommodation ', is the radical concept that makes the DDA 1995 so different from the older legislation.

Instead of the rather passive approach of indirect discrimination ( where someone can take action if they have been disadvantaged by a policy, practice or criterion that a body with duties under the law has adopted ), reasonable adjustment is an active approach that requires employers, service providers etc to take steps to remove barriers from disabled people's participation.

For example: