# Disability and Assistive Continuity **Domain:** Disability Rights / Continuity / Accessibility **Doc Type:** Rights Framework **Maturity:** Developed **Related:** [[wiki/Rights|Rights]], [[wiki/Post-Biological Embodiment|Post-Biological Embodiment]], [[wiki/Continuity Access Inequality|Continuity Access Inequality]] --- ## Definition **Disability and assistive continuity** applies disability rights, accessibility and supported decision-making to technologies that preserve, augment, reconstruct or embody a person. It treats assistive technology as part of agency and participation rather than evidence that a person is incomplete. ## Rights Baseline The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities requires equal recognition before the law and access to support in exercising legal capacity, alongside accessibility, personal mobility, independent living and voluntary habilitation and rehabilitation. Article 26 also calls for availability, knowledge and use of assistive devices and technologies. These commitments resist two opposite errors: denying continuity because a person uses extensive support, and compelling technological transformation as a condition of care, legal recognition or social inclusion. ## Continuity Requirements - interfaces that remain usable across sensory, cognitive, speech and mobility differences; - supported decision-making without converting supporters into owners; - preservation of communication systems, access profiles and assistive relationships as identity-relevant state; - embodiment choices that do not assume a single “normal” body; - the right to refuse repair, normalization, upload or substitution; - continuity of support when a provider, device or jurisdiction changes. ## Non-Coercion A person may value disability as part of identity, seek particular changes, or hold both views in different contexts. Architecture should preserve control over those choices. Resource scarcity cannot be answered by assigning lower fidelity to disabled continuants or by treating assistance as an optional premium feature. ## Source - [United Nations — Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities](https://www.un.org/disabilities/documents/convention/convoptprot-e.pdf) ## See Also [[wiki/Minimum Viable Continuity|Minimum Viable Continuity]] · [[wiki/Continuity Due Process|Continuity Due Process]] · [[wiki/Voluntary Non-Continuation|Voluntary Non-Continuation]]