handicap accessibility handicapped equipment home elevators HANDICAP ACCESSIBILITY Millions of North Americans are affected by disabilities that limit their mobility. Physically challenged people encounter many obstacles each day. Barriers such as stairs raised building entrances and steep inclines deny access to public buildings and even to parts of their own homes. The handicap accessibility equipment industry seeks to remedy these barriers by providing mobility solutions to the elderly and disabled. The industry constitutes manufacturers of stairway lifts, vertical platform lifts, inclined platform lifts residential elevators and limited use or limited application elevators designed to enhance mobility of the disabled and elderly individual.