Does the DDA require accessible taxi schemes to be extended to people with agoraphobia?
No. A person who is denied eligibility for a program or benefit because he or she does not have a particular disability, rather than because of the disability he or she does have, has not been discriminated against unlawfully under the DDA. The DDA’s “special measures” provision, section 45, also protects the ability of governments or other organisations to implement targeted programs reasonably intended to benefit people with a particular range of disabilities.
