Diverse Abilities and Barriers: Accessing information on websites

As federally regulated organizations prepare their accessibility plans, another consideration is that the plan itself is accessible. 

Web Accessibility Initiative WAI has a website that provides information on a variety of disabilities. The site also details the sorts of barriers that people with these disabilities encounter when they are using websites. For each disability type, there are also stories about people’s experiences using websites. The following disabilities are discussed:

• Auditory
• Cognitive, learning, and neurological
• Physical
• Speech
• Visual