Services for the disabled are those government or other institutional services specifically provided to enable people who are disabled to participate on equal grounds in society. Some such services are mandated or required by law, some are assisted by technologies that have made it easier to provide the service, others are commercially available not only to disabled people but others who might make use of them. The term disability, as it is applied to humans, refers to any condition that impedes the completion of daily tasks using traditional methods. ...

A complete list of such services would be difficult to assemble, especially as new ones are being invented all the time, and as old services are being delivered in new ways. It may be easier to divide the services by the disability that they help overcome:

• services for the blind include
  • seeing-eye dogs being admitted to buildings, buses, trains and other locations that dogs normally are not allowed
  • reserving the use of a white cane for blind people only, so that it is obvious to others that someone is actually blind
  • using mobile phone cameras to take pictures of change after a transaction, so that it can be counted by a sighted person who verifies by tone or voice that the change is correct
  • translation of new works into braille or talking books or the use of text-to-speech translators
    • availability of these in a public library or other public institution
    • availability of these in a boot image configured for use by a disabled person
• services for the visually-impaired include:
  • large print books
  • basic operating system and boot image configuration utilities that set computers up with large bold fonts and high-contrast colour combination desktop schemes
• services for the hearing-impaired include:
  • admission of hearing aids to buildings or locations where recording and transmitting devices are not normally permitted
• services for the deaf include
  • TTY terminals for telephones
  • closed captioning on television
  • simultaneous sign language translation
• services for the mobility-impaired

The Americans With Disabilities Act was a landmark U.S. federal government move towards providing services for the disabled in a uniform way all across the country. That legislation has been widely copied in other countries. Labrador Retriever guide dogs resting. ... A Czech braille calendar There is also an asteroid 9969 Braille Braille is a tactile writing system used by blind people. ... Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech. ... Librarians and patrons in a typical larger urban public library A public library is a library which is accessible by the public and is often operated by civil servants and funded from public sources. ... A boot image is the sequence of bits on the boot device that interface with computer hardware - usually includes operating system, utilities and diagnostics, boot and data recovery information. ... In computing, an operating system (OS) is the system software responsible for the direct control and management of hardware and basic system operations. ... A boot image is the sequence of bits on the boot device that interface with computer hardware - usually includes operating system, utilities and diagnostics, boot and data recovery information. ... A hearing aid is a device used to help the hard-of-hearing hear sounds better. ... TTY is a short form of several things: Short form of Teletype, in turn short form of Teletypewriter. ... Closed captioning allows deaf, hard of hearing / hearing_impaired, and other people to read, through captions, a transcript of the audio portion of a video that they cannot hear. ... The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 is the short title of United States Public Law 101-336, signed into law on July 26, 1990 by George H. W. Bush. ... ...