About 43 million people around the world live with some degree of blindness or vision loss. Low-vision users and users with vision impairments are incredibly common on the web. If your website doesn't work for people with low vision, you may be ...
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How to Make Your Website Accessible for People Who Are Deaf
Approximately 466 million people (over 5% of the world's population) worldwide have disabling hearing loss. This includes about 432 million adults and 34 million children. Disabling hearing loss is different for adults and children. An adult is ...
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The Internet is Unusable: The Disabled View: Nicolas Steenhout
As part of our commitment to giving back and sharing knowledge, we have partnered with the WordPress Foundation’s community team to run an official WordPress Meetup centered around building more accessible websites with WordPress. This post has a ...
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How to Make Your Website Accessible for Deaf-Blind People
It is estimated that around 0.2% of the world's population is completely deaf-blind, and another 2% live with "milder forms" of deaf-blindness. This is screen reader text. Generally, someone who is deaf-blind has concomitant hearing and vision ...
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How to Make Your Website Accessible for Color-Blind People
Marketers, website content creators, designers, and developers need to consider how their color choices can impact people both on the web and in print marketing materials. Colorblindness is, unfortunately, an often forgotten disability that can make ...
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How to Make Your Website Accessible for Blind and Visually-Impaired People
Whether you're a designer, developer, or content creator, you need to know how to make your website accessible to blind and visually impaired people. Learning how to create blind-friendly websites starts with understanding how blind people use the ...
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