Reasonable adjustments and disability discrimination became central legal concepts.
The law said barriers had to move. Too often, people still had to fight to move them.
The Equality Act 2010 brought together and strengthened equality law in the UK. Disability is one of the protected characteristics covered by the Act.
It includes duties around discrimination and reasonable adjustments in areas such as work, education, services and public functions.
The idea of reasonable adjustments is powerful. It means the person should not always be the one forced to bend. Sometimes the environment, rule, method or expectation must change.
That is a legal reflection of the social model of disability.
The Equality Act fits the Awareverse slogan perfectly: see the human, then change the barrier.
But the fight is often in enforcement. Many people still have to explain, prove, challenge and appeal before adjustments happen.