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The disability rights movement aims to improve the quality of life of people with disabilities. Accessibility and safety are primary issues that this movement works to reform. Access to public areas such as city streets and public buildings and restrooms are some of the more visible changes brought about in recent decades. A noticeable change in some parts of the world is the installation of elevators, transit lifts, wheelchair ramps and curb cuts, allowing people in wheelchairs and otherwise mobility impaired to use public sidewalks and public transit more easily and more safely. This improvement has also been appreciated by parents pushing strollers or trolleys, and people riding bicycles.
Access to education and employment have also been a major focus of this movement. Adaptive technologies enabling people to work jobs they could not have previously helps with access to jobs and economic independence. Access in the classroom has helped improve education opportunities and independence for people with disabilities.
The right to have an independent life as an adult, sometimes using paid assistant care instead of being institutionalized is a major goal of this movement. The movement has allowed more people with disabilities to be integrated into mainstream society.
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