🔧 How to Wield the E.N.A.B.L.E. Model

ENABLE is a practical tool for understanding accessibility breakdowns -- and changing what happens next.

It helps you answer four questions about any broken experience:

1. Where could access have been delivered earlier? → Pre-launch Interventions

2. Who's carrying the burden now -- and how? → Post-launch Compensations

3. What caused or overcame the problem? → Forces that Disable → Forces that Enable

4. What have people actually done in response -- to prevent harm or survive it? → Manifestations

How to Use ENABLE

1. Start with a real problem. Something is inaccessible. What's going wrong?

2. Locate the missed opportunity. Check the pre-launch interventions to find when accessibility should have been built in.

3. Trace the burden. Identify how users are compensating using the post-launch compensations.

4. Name the force. Understand what allowed the failure -- drift, neglect, abandonment, silence, or enabling forces like media and advocacy.

5. Explore what others have done. In manifestations, find real-world examples -- from organizations that did the right thing to users who found workarounds. Use these as models or signals.

When You're Not Sure Where to Start

• Spotting a workaround? → Go to Post-launch Compensations
• Trying to prevent failure upstream? → Go to Pre-launch Interventions
• Witnessing a rollback or silence? → Go to Forces that Disable → Abandonment
• Looking for examples of care or survival? → Visit Manifestations

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You don't need to be an expert to use ENABLE. You just need to be willing to name what went wrong -- and do something with what you find.