Access Fatigue is the idea coined by Annika Konrad that disabled people are put in a position where they need to constantly help others participate in creating access for themselves and other disabled people and that this demand for help is so constant and taxing that it can cause fatigue and lead to some disabled people not requesting that spaces be accessible because it is seen as not worth the effort.

Access Fatigue

In this subcode, "comforting" is in quotation marks to note how, as discussed by Annika Konrad in Access Fatigue: The Rhetorical Work of Disability in Everyday Life, disabled people are often expected or forced to take on the role of comforting non-disabled people about their disability. 

The subcodes Price included under Accompaniment were:
- Being believed or not believed
- Being ignored
- Being understood or misunderstood
- Collaborating on an access issue or question
- "Comforting" another person
- Educating someone else about disability or access, or being educated about disability or access
- Experiencing slurs, belittling, or minimizing
- Identifying shared experiences
- Forming relations with technologies or objects
- Trusting another person or people
- Working with a professional" interpreter, personal assistant, etc.
- Working with a nonprofessional: friend doing personal assistant work, spouse helping you navigate campus, etc.
- Accompaniment -Other.

Accompaniment Subcodes

Price, M. (2024). Crip Spacetime. Duke University Press.

Crip Spacetime

Konrad, Annika. 2021 "Access Fatigue: The Rhetorical Work of Disability in Everyday Life." College English 83(3): 179-199.

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