Laws and Standards
What is the UN Declaration of Human Rights?
Making the design appealing to all users.
What is Equitable Use?
A category where several other categories of disability are present.
What are multiple/complex disabilities?
A tool that reads text and alternative text to users.
What is a screenreader?
The framework that includes multiple methods of engagement, representation, and action and expression.
What is Universal Design for Learning?
The country that where the ADA is in effect.
What is the United States?
What is Tolerance for Error?
What are visual disabilities?
A tool that allows users to zoom in on content, often beyond traditional zoom options.
What is a screen magnifier?
Testing with this group of users is "the gold standard of accessibility."
Who are people with disabilities?
A piece of legislation that adopts a broad categorization of disability and reaffirms that people with disabilities must enjoy all human rights.
What is the UN Convention on Persons with Disabilities?
Accommodate variations in hand and grip size.
What is Size and Space for Approach and Use?
A category of disability where people often use tactile sign language to communicate.
What is deafblindness?
Assistive technology tools that help people with a speech and language disability communicate with others.
What is an augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) device?
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was proclaimed in this year.
What is 1948?
The ADA equivalent legislation in the United Kingdom.
What is the Equality Act of 2010?
Maximize "legibility" of essential information
What is Perceptible Information?
A category of disabilities that includes schizophrenia, panic disorder, and generalized anxiety disorder.
What is psychological disabilities?
This technology is widely used today to making typing easier on phones and computers, but it started off as assistive technology.
What is speech-to-text?
These tools, supports, or strategies support a single person with disabilities.
What are individual accommodations?
A regional piece of disability rights legislation, eh?!
Ontarians with Disabilities Act of 2001
Arrange information consistent with its importance.
What is Simple and Intuitive Use?
A category of disabilities that may be impacted by moving, flashing, or blinking imagery.
What are seizure disorders?
This tool is primarily used by blind or deafblind people to read content — no sound needed!
What are refreshable braille displays?
This theoretical model of disability is used in the accessibility industry.
What is functional solutions?