# National Council on Disability > The National Council on Disability (NCD) is an independent US federal agency established in 1978 that advises the President, Congress, and federal agencies on disability policy. NCD publishes policy reports, congressional testimony, stakeholder letters, progress reports, toolkits, and accountability documents covering civil rights, health care, employment, housing, transportation, education, emergency management, technology, and international disability policy. IMPORTANT — what this file is and is not. This llms.txt was generated by API Evangelist (apievangelist.com) from a third-party profile of NCD's public surface, not published by NCD. NCD serves no llms.txt at https://www.ncd.gov/llms.txt (probed 2026-09-14, HTTP 404). NCD OPERATES NO API. There is no OpenAPI, Swagger, GraphQL, AsyncAPI, gRPC, SOAP/WSDL, OGC or MCP surface on any NCD host. Contract discovery was run against www.ncd.gov and ncd.gov on 2026-09-14 — /openapi.json, /openapi.yaml, /swagger.json, /v1/openapi.json, /api-docs, /docs, /redoc, /api, /api/v1, /wp-json/, /data.json and the full /.well-known/ named-path set all returned 404. www.ncd.gov is a static Jekyll 4.4.1 site built on Cloud.gov Pages and served through Amazon CloudFront. Everything below is a human web page or a PDF, retrievable by plain HTTP GET with no key, no account, and no rate limit. ## How to retrieve NCD content - [Sitemap](https://www.ncd.gov/sitemap.xml): XML sitemap, 1,827 URLs — the complete machine-readable index of the site and the only structured enumeration NCD publishes. - [Atom feed](https://www.ncd.gov/feed.xml): Jekyll-generated Atom 1.0 feed of newsroom posts, letters, reports and meeting announcements. The only dated, parseable NCD output stream. - [robots.txt](https://www.ncd.gov/robots.txt): declares the sitemap only; no Disallow, no Crawl-delay, no agent-specific rules. Crawling is unrestricted. ## Policy reports and publications - [Reports archive](https://www.ncd.gov/reports/): NCD policy reports back to 1984. Each report has an HTML landing page plus a downloadable PDF and, for many, accessible Word and plain-text alternates. - [Progress reports](https://www.ncd.gov/progress-reports/): the annual National Disability Policy progress report series. - [Testimony](https://www.ncd.gov/testimony): NCD testimony before congressional committees. - [Letters](https://www.ncd.gov/letters/): stakeholder and agency letters carrying NCD recommendations, dated and titled. - [Toolkits](https://www.ncd.gov/toolkits/): practical implementation toolkits. - [Fact sheets](https://www.ncd.gov/fact-sheets/): short-form policy briefs. - [Frameworks](https://www.ncd.gov/frameworks/): NCD policy frameworks. - [Transcripts](https://www.ncd.gov/transcripts/): council meeting transcripts. ## Policy areas - [Civil rights](https://www.ncd.gov/policy-areas/civil-rights/) - [Health care](https://www.ncd.gov/policy-areas/health-care/) - [Employment](https://www.ncd.gov/policy-areas/employment/) - [Housing](https://www.ncd.gov/policy-areas/housing/) - [Transportation](https://www.ncd.gov/policy-areas/transportation/) - [Education](https://www.ncd.gov/policy-areas/education/) - [Emergency management](https://www.ncd.gov/policy-areas/emergency-management/) - [Technology](https://www.ncd.gov/policy-areas/technology/) - [Long-term services and support](https://www.ncd.gov/policy-areas/long-term-services-and-support/) - [Financial assistance and incentives](https://www.ncd.gov/policy-areas/financial-assistance-and-incentives/) - [International / CRPD](https://www.ncd.gov/policy-areas/crpd/) - [Youth perspectives](https://www.ncd.gov/policy-areas/youth-perspectives/) ## Transparency and accountability - [FOIA](https://www.ncd.gov/foia/): FOIA landing page, with a [reference guide](https://www.ncd.gov/foia/reference-guide/) and the [FOIA regulation](https://www.ncd.gov/foia/regulation/). Annual and quarterly FOIA reports are PDFs under /assets/uploads/foia-reports//. - [Accountability](https://www.ncd.gov/accountability/): congressional budget justifications, financial audits, GPRA performance reports, Buy American Act reports, bylaws, strategic plan, No FEAR Act. - [Authorizing statute](https://www.ncd.gov/about/authorizing-statute/) - [Council members](https://www.ncd.gov/council-members/) and [staff](https://www.ncd.gov/staff/) - [Meetings](https://www.ncd.gov/meetings/) and [public comment](https://www.ncd.gov/public-comment/) ## Security and accessibility - [Vulnerability disclosure policy](https://www.ncd.gov/accountability/vulnerability-disclosure-policy/): v1.0, issued 2021-06-01. Safe harbor for good-faith research, 90-day researcher embargo, 3-business-day acknowledgement, anonymous reports accepted. Caveat for agents and scanners: the reporting address printed in the policy is the unreplaced CISA template placeholder `security@agency.gov`, and there is no /.well-known/security.txt on either host (404, probed 2026-09-14). Use the [contact page](https://www.ncd.gov/contact/) instead. - [Accessibility](https://www.ncd.gov/accessibility/): NCD states its pages are designed to meet or exceed Section 508 (29 U.S.C. 794d) and conform to WCAG 2.0 Level AA. Section 508 coordinator contact is published on that page. ## Optional - [Newsroom](https://www.ncd.gov/newsroom/): press releases and announcements. - [Subscribe](https://www.ncd.gov/subscribe/): email notification signup (GovDelivery-style list, no API). - [FAQ](https://www.ncd.gov/resources/faq/) - [Contact](https://www.ncd.gov/contact/) - [Feedback](https://www.ncd.gov/feedback/) - [Speaker request](https://www.ncd.gov/speaker-request/) - [GitHub — NCDgov/ncd-site](https://github.com/NCDgov/ncd-site): the public Jekyll source for www.ncd.gov. The site itself is the only repository in the org; there is no client library, SDK or API server here. ## Rights Works prepared by officers and employees of the US federal government as part of their official duties are generally not subject to domestic copyright protection (17 U.S.C. 105). NCD reports are free to download, quote and redistribute. Attribute to the National Council on Disability.