Making web sites and applications usable by people with cognitive and learning disabilities affects every part of design and development.
Traditionally, accessibility focused on making the interface usable for people with sensory and physical impairments (vision, hearing, or mobility). Some accessibility features will help people with cognitive and learning disabilities. Often the issues that affect people with cognitive and learning disabilities include:
- design,
- context,
- structure,
- language,
- usability, and
- other factors that are difficult to include in general guidelines.
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