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 # **use**able
 
-`useable`, provided by [Accessible Community](https://www.accessiblecommunity.org), associates people with disabilities' requirements for use with broader functional categories and known disabilities. This taxonomy crosses digital and physical spaces as well as accommodations in a way that previous categorizations have not. This type of mapping is needed to help build tools and resources to help the entire disability community.
+[Accessible Community](https://www.accessiblecommunity.org) is committed to creating ethical technology that supports the disability community. In order to build tools that support people with all types of disabilities, we need a categorization of requirements mapped to disability. The mapping needs to be easily understandable by end users and yet detailed enough to allow tools to leverage it.  
 
-The `useable` taxonomy is based around previous work in the fields of accessibility and accommodations:
+`useable`, coordinated by [Accessible Community](https://www.accessiblecommunity.org), associates people with disabilities' requirements for use with broader functional categories and known diabilities. This taxonomy crosses digital and physical spaces as well as events and accommodations in a way that previous categorizations have not. This type of mapping is needed to help build tools and resources to help the entire disability community.
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+The `useable` taxonomy leverages previous work in the fields of accessibility and accommodations:
 * [Functional Performance Criteria](https://www.access-board.gov/ict/#302-functional-performance-criteria) provided by the United States Section 508 Standards for Digital Accessibility.
 * [Functional Performance Statements](https://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_en/301500_301599/301549/03.01.01_60/en_301549v030101p.pdf) provided by the European EN 301-549 Standards for Digital Accessibility.
 * [The Listing of Impairments for adults](https://www.ssa.gov/disability/professionals/bluebook/AdultListings.htm) provided by the United States' Social Security Administration (SSA).