CIS 421 › Accessibility› Types of Disabilities
Types of Disabilities we need to address *
Visual Disabilities:
- Blindness
- low vision -- affects older people, and people with certain eye disorders:
- Glaucoma destroys peripheral vision
- Macular Degeneration destroys central vision
- other eye disorders
- color blindness affects 8 % of all people, and 12% of males -- links to types
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Hearing Disabilities:
- Physically cannot use mouse
- fine motor skills impaired
- modality that person uses to interact with Web page may be very tiring.
- loss of limbs
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Cognitive Disabilities (also applies to those with low reading skills
- Learning disabilities, such as dyslexia, that make it hard to understand written material
- Attention Deficit Disorder (ADHD), which makes it hard to concentrate
- brain injuries or trauma
- genetic disorders
- mental retardation
- Jumbled text
- Photoepileptic seizure some people get seizures when they see strobe light, flickering light or flashing light.
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*See WebAIM Website.
