{"id":1658,"date":"2013-03-07T09:05:47","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T14:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=1658"},"modified":"2013-03-07T09:05:47","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T14:05:47","slug":"considering-various-disabilities-3613","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=1658","title":{"rendered":"Considering Various Disabilities, 3\/6\/13"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Considering Various Disabilities (Web Tip #1)<\/h2>\n<p><b>Difficulty:<\/b> Beginner<\/p>\n<p><b>Category:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Principles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Web accessibility affects the following disability categories<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/webaim.org\/articles\/visual\/\">Visual disabilities<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; blindness, low vision, and color-blindness<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/webaim.org\/articles\/auditory\/\">Auditory disabilities<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0&#8211; deafness and hard-of-hearing<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/webaim.org\/articles\/motor\/\">Motor disabilities<\/a>\u00a0 &#8211; difficulty using a mouse or keyboard<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/webaim.org\/articles\/cognitive\/\">Cognitive or learning disabilities<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/webaim.org\/articles\/seizure\/\">Photo-sensitive epilepsy<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While care should be taken when grouping anyone into a category, when approaching web accessibility issues, it&#8217;s often useful to consider the distinct needs of users with each of these types of disabilities.<\/p>\n<div class=\"al2fb_like_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=149587675112835\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=1658\" layout=\"standard\" show_faces=\"true\" share=\"false\" width=\"450\" action=\"like\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" ref=\"AL2FB\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Considering Various Disabilities (Web Tip #1) Difficulty: Beginner Category: Principles Web accessibility affects the following disability categories Visual disabilities\u00a0&#8211; blindness, low vision, and color-blindness Auditory disabilities\u00a0\u00a0&#8211; deafness and hard-of-hearing Motor disabilities\u00a0 &#8211; difficulty using a mouse or keyboard Cognitive or learning disabilities Photo-sensitive epilepsy While care should be taken when grouping anyone into a category, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1658"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1662,"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions\/1662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}