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How People with Disabilities Use the Web

    Accessibility: It's about people

Introduction

How do people who cannot move their arms use your website? What about
people who cannot see well or at all? Or people who have difficulty
hearing, or understanding, or have other disabilities?

This resource introduces how disabled people use the web, including
people with age-related impairments. It helps developers, designers,
content creators, and others understand the reasons behind creating
accessible digital products -- including websites, apps, browsers, and
other web tools.

Sections in this resource

  * Stories of Web Users (also called "personas") -- represent the
    experiences of people with different disabilities.
  * Diverse Abilities and Barriers -- introduces the wide diversity of
    abilities and highlights some accessibility barriers that people
    experience because of inaccessible digital technology.
  * Tools and Techniques -- covers the tools and techniques that
    disabled people use to interact with digital technology.

Related WAI resources

  * Accessibility Principles - introduces the four principles used to
    organize accessibility requirements and provides examples of
    requirements related to each principle from the international
    accessibility standards from the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative
    (WAI).
  * Web Accessibility Perspectives Videos: Explore the Impact and
    Benefits for Everyone - presents a collection of short videos
    highlighting accessibility features that are essential to people
    with disabilities and useful for all.

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Date: Updated 25 June 2024. First posted as a draft in 1999.

Editor: Shadi Abou-Zahra. Previous editor: Judy Brewer. See
Acknowledgements for additional editors and contributors.

Developed by the Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG) with
support from the WAI-Guide Project and WAI-AGE Project co-funded by
the European Commission (EC).

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