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Do you think there is a functional difference between those words?


I think you could easily describe accessibility efforts to be an attempt to provide both equal and equitable access to content.


Equity requires unequal treatment so do you have an example?


Sure.

Equal is giving everyone a printout.

Equity is giving the blind student a Braille version.

The latter is an attempt at providing equal access to the contents to those with different needs, so that they may learn equitably.

(The alternative term JEDI might argue that this is the just result.)


Thank you, that seems a pretty good example.


You're not describing equity. You're describing accessibility.

Equity would be mandating that blind students pass at the same rate as sighted students regardless of their scores.


No, I’m describing equity in opportunity to learn.

Equal outcomes for all is not equity - it is inequitable for a deliberately lazy person to succeed when a hard working person does not, just because of something they were born with.

Giving every student the same printed packet is equal treatment, but unjust and inequitable to the blind student.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_equity?wprov=sfti1

> Social equity within a society is different from social equality based on formal equality of opportunity. For example, person A may have no difficulty walking, person B may be able to walk but have difficulties with stairs, while person C may be unable to walk at all. Social equality would be treating each of those three people in the same way (by providing each with the same aids, or none), whereas social equity pursues the aim of making them equally capable of traversing public spaces by themselves (e.g. by installing lifts next to staircases and providing person C with a wheelchair).




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