Disabilities

We are all likely to develop disabilities at some point in our lives. Disabilities that can be addressed with thoughtful Web design cover a wide range:

• Blindness
• Low vision (low acuity, tunnel vision, central field loss, clouded vision)
• Color blindness
• Deafness
• Mobility impairments
• Learning disabilities
• Memory impairments
• Injuries such as a broken hand, repetitive stress disorder

Roughly ten percent of the general population has disabilities that will interfere with their use of the Web. In many cases, these people can be helped with adaptive technologies.

Please carefully read the following two sites to better understand how good Web design can help people deal with disabilities:

• Introduction to Web Accessibility - WebAIM
• How People with Disabilities Use the Web - W3C WAI