{"id":1973,"date":"2013-08-07T13:10:56","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T17:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=1973"},"modified":"2013-08-07T13:10:56","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T17:10:56","slug":"cognitive-disabilities-web-tip-21-8713","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=1973","title":{"rendered":"Cognitive Disabilities, Web Tip #21, 8\/7\/13"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Cognitive Disabilities<\/h2>\n<p><b>Difficulty:<\/b> Beginner<\/p>\n<p><b>Category:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Principles<\/li>\n<li>Content<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The number of people with <a href=\"http:\/\/webaim.org\/articles\/cognitive\/\">cognitive disabilities<\/a> is greater than the number people with all other disabilities combined. Cognitive disabilities are complex and vary greatly. <a href=\"http:\/\/webaim.org\/articles\/evaluatingcognitive\/\">Recommendations for those with cognitive disabilities<\/a> share much overlap with general usability recommendations; however, the impact of poor usability and understandability can have a much more significant impact on those with cognitive disabilities. Care should be taken to ensure optimal functionality and understandability of web content by those with cognitive or learning 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=1973\" 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>Cognitive Disabilities Difficulty: Beginner Category: Principles Content The number of people with cognitive disabilities is greater than the number people with all other disabilities combined. Cognitive disabilities are complex and vary greatly. Recommendations for those with cognitive disabilities share much overlap with general usability recommendations; however, the impact of poor usability and understandability can have [&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\/1973"}],"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=1973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1974,"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973\/revisions\/1974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}