Digital
This common document format is not generally accessible.
What is a PDF?
This term refers to the design and construction of buildings and outdoor spaces to ensure they can be accessed and used by individuals with disabilities.
What is universal design?
This is the proper way to guide a blind colleague navigating their way through the physical environment.
What is offering that they rest a hand on your arm below the elbow?
According to the World Health Organization, this is the approximate percentage of people in the world living with a disability.
What is between 16-20%?
This US regulation on disability rights was signed into law on July 26, 1990, by President George H.W. Bush.
What is ADA or the Americans with Disabilities Act?
EY Webcasts, videos, and trainings are required to offer these to help make them accessible.
What are captions?
These features, commonly found in parks and recreational areas, provide accessible routes for individuals with mobility impairments.
What are wheelchair ramps and paths?
This is never an appropriate way to interact with a working service animal.
What is petting them?
There are four major types of disability: visual, hearing, motor, and what?
What is cognitive?
This inclusion day is observed each year on 3 December and has two primary goals. First, to promote the full and equal participation of persons with disabilities. Second, to take action to insure the inclusion of persons with disabilities in all aspects of society and development.
What is International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPWD)?
This Outlook tool can help you test your documents and PowerPoints for accessibility and fix any errors.
What is Accessibility Checker?
These types of signage use raised characters and Braille to provide information to individuals with visual impairments in outdoor environments.
What are tactile signs?
When walking with a wheelchair user, this is always considered impolite.
What is touching their chair without permission?
This term means that a disability is not immediately seen or detected by someone else.
What is non-apparent disability, hidden or invisible disability?
This awareness day focuses on digital access and inclusion for the more than one billion people alive today who live with disabilities or impairments. It is marked annually on the third Thursday of May.
What is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD)?
These are the external global standards for digital accessibility.
What is WCAG 2.0?
These devices, such as portable ramps and stairlifts, provide temporary accessibility solutions for events and temporary structures.
What are portable accessibility aids?
When speaking with a deaf person who is using an interpreter, you should only make eye contact with this individual.
What is the deaf person you are conversing with?
This refers to the concept that neurological differences, such as autism and ADHD, are natural variations of the human brain and should be recognized and respected.
What is neurodiversity?
This famous disability rights activist is known for her work in advocating for the rights of people with disabilities and was a key figure in the passage of the ADA.
Who is Judy Heumann?
You should add these to make your graphics or images accessible to screen readers.
What is alternative text (Alt text)?
This is the most up to date symbol to identify accessible rest rooms, parking spots and other accessible spaces.
What is the wheelchair in motion icon?
This is always the right thing to do before assisting someone with disabilities.
What is asking if they'd like assistance?
Name one way that workplaces can become more inclusive for employees with disabilities.
Implementing flexible work arrangements or providing assistive technologies.
This documentary premiered on Netflix in 2020 and is focuses on campers of the famous Camp Jened, a summer camp in New York for kids with disabilities who grow up to become activists in the disability rights movement and fight for accessibility legislation.
What is Crip Camp?