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External Link Policy

People use this wiki to make real decisions about benefits, rights, health, and safety. Every external link is a claim that the destination is worth your trust, so we hold links to a higher bar than most websites do.

The short version: we link primary sources and disability-led organizations. We don’t link commercial content marketing, however well written.

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  • Primary official sources. Government agencies, courts, regulators, and standards bodies: the SSA, the CRA, GOV.UK, the ADA National Network, licensing authorities, and their equivalents in other countries. When a fact comes from an agency, we link the agency.
  • Disability-led and disability-serving organizations. Groups run by or directly accountable to disabled people, and established nonprofits with a track record in the area a page covers.
  • Established research and reference sources. Peer-reviewed work, recognized professional bodies, and standards organizations (for example, the W3C for web accessibility).

Every link is checked to be live and pointing at the current version of the source before it’s added. Figures and deadlines are date-stamped where they appear.

Section titled “What We Don’t Link”
  • Commercial content marketing. Blog posts and “resource guides” published by businesses (law firms, lenders, clinics, insurers) to attract customers. Some are well written; they still exist to sell a service, and they go stale without notice.
  • Middleman pages. If a guide’s real value is the official sources it cites, we link those sources directly and skip the guide.
  • Affiliate and SEO content. Pages whose purpose is ranking or referral revenue rather than accuracy.

This isn’t a judgment about any one company. It’s a bright line that keeps the wiki’s incentives aligned with readers instead of advertisers.

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We regularly receive requests to add third-party guides. We read them, and when a guide cites useful primary sources we don’t already include, we add those sources directly (with credit to no one; the agency was always the author). The guide itself won’t be linked if it’s commercial content, per the policy above.

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Know a primary source or disability-led organization a page should cite? We’d genuinely like to hear about it, especially sources from outside the US and Europe. See How to Contribute.

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Contribute to This Page

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Spotted a broken link, a source that’s gone stale, or a better primary source? We especially welcome corrections from disabled people with direct experience of the systems our pages describe. See How to Contribute.

This page centers disabled people’s expertise and is informed by disabled-led organizing globally. For questions or to suggest additions, see How to Contribute.

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