Luna Dragofelis ΘΔ🏳️⚧️
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@LunaDragofelis@void.lgbt
Disability works differently for (cisspecies) meltcats than it does for humans and many other Earth creatures.
Meltcats can melt their body or parts of it into slime, reshape it and resolidify.
That means they have an easy time restoring damaged or lost body parts. They melt the affected area, possibly borrowing some spare slime, and bring it back into a workable shape.
So an event that would leave a human body permanently disabled, like losing a hand, breaking the spine or getting stabbed in an eye, would be an easily fixed situation for a cisspecies meltcat.
However, due to their reshaping capabilities, meltcats can also heavily optimize their body to their tasks. They can add body parts, such as extra arms, legs or eyes. They can also go for different layouts, for example anthro, taur, quadruped, blob, serpent or something even more specialized. They probably can even adjust their brain size.
They can also omit body parts and abilities if they don't personally need them, like eyesight, hearing, arms, hands, legs, reproduction, the ability to eat solid food (as opposed to meltcat milk, which doesn't need teeth or a tongue and can be handled by a simple, vagina like mouth) or even intelligence.
They can choose to acquire those abilities (again or for the first time) later on in their life, so it's not as big of a deal for them to not have them.
That means accessibility would be approached from a different perspective:
In humans, the majority of humans have similar abilities, and accessibility is to support an involuntary minority. The expectation is that every human should be able to access everything where it is feasible.
In meltcats, there's a massive variation in body layouts and abilities. Accessibility is provided where a general public population of meltcats is expected. The expectation is that meltcats adapt their body to the places and activities they do. Meltcats are also a communal species, so they don't have the individualistic expectation that every meltcat must be able to do everything on their own.