While we might have medical and government-recognised definitions that tell us what makes a disability, day-to-day life is not so straightforward. Visual agnosia (impaired recognition or identification of objects) Scotopic visual sensitivity (visual stress related to light) None of these disabilities are completely black and whiteĮxamining deafness, it’s clear from the medical scale that there are many grey areas between full hearing and total deafness:įor eyesight, and brain conditions that affect what users see, there is a huge range of conditions and challenges: Learning difficulties, distractibility, the inability to focus on large amounts of information The inability to use a mouse, slow response time, limited fine motor control There are four main types of disability that affect use of the web:īlindness, low vision and colour-blindness We can affect positively the lives of many people by making their access to the web easier.

In the same way that the accessibility of a building isn’t just about access for wheelchair users, web accessibility isn’t just about blind users and screen readers. Let’s take a look at the most common excuses.Įxcuse 1: “People with disabilities don’t really use the web”Īccessibility will make your site available to more people - the inclusion case

Over the last few months I’ve spoken to a lot of people about accessibility, and I’ve heard the same reasons to ignore it over and over again. Still, of those who are familiar with accessibility, there’s an overwhelming number of designers, developers, clients and bosses who just aren’t that bothered.

There are some who are endlessly dedicated to accessible web design, and there are some who believe it so intrinsic to the web that it shouldn’t be considered a separate topic. In the web community, there’s a surprisingly inconsistent approach to accessibility. Accessibility is most often used to describe how people with disabilities can access the web. Web accessibility (known in other fields as inclusive design or universal design) is the degree to which a website is available to as many people as possible. Select rowid, * from articles where rowid in (select rowid from articles_fts where articles_fts match :search) order by rowid limit 101 Query parameters Home / 24ways 24ways Custom SQL query returning 101 rows

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