Making websites accessible to people with cognitive disabilities is as important as it is for any other type of disability, and there are techniques you can use to ensure your web content and functionality is accessible to people with cognitive impairments.
For the purposes of assessing web accessibility, umbrella terms like “cognitive disability”, “cognitive impairments” and “cognitive difficulties” are largely interchangeable. They all refer to cognition, the mental processes all people use to perceive and understand the world.
Research underway indicates that people with a wide range of cognitive disabilities encounter significant, fundamental, and sometimes critical barriers to accessibility on the web.
What the web developer must focus on is the functional impact that inaccessible websites have on people with cognitive disabilities.
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