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Disabled people come into contact daily with ‘social exclusion’. The ‘disability barriers’ to equal rights and opportunities include discrimination, lack of awareness of disabled persons’ needs and failure to take those needs into account in the design of products, services and the built environment. This report highlights opportunities for change in work, learning, welfare and the design of the built environment. They show the potential to harness the mutual interests of disabled and non-disabled people, and to build equal rights and equal access into the design of new services, products and buildings. Success depends on new partnerships and arguments linking disability rights to the wider agenda of modernisation.