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From: L Snider
Date: Feb 9, 2022 12:25PM

Totally agree with Lucy and Karen! I cover a wide range and even ones that
are rare or that others wouldn't consider a disability....remember many
people have multiple disabilities...

I am trying to find the source, but a few years ago, I read that 60-70% of
people who answered a survey identified with multiple disabilities. Also
some people have them and don't identify with disabilities they may
have...complex thing is the human!

Cheers

Lisa

On Wed, Feb 9, 2022 at 3:08 PM Karen McCall < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> I agree with Lucy...my training and teaching has always been to optimize
> accessibility for the broadest range of people. You never know when someone
> with a disability is in your audience. Trying to prioritize access to
> digital content for a specific group of people is never a winning scenario.
>
> Cheers, Karen
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of
> Nathan Clark
> Sent: Wednesday, February 9, 2022 1:57 PM
> To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> Subject: [WebAIM] disabilities and accessibility
>
> Dear list,
>
> My company and I are trying to create an accessible training program for
> screen reader users to use our unstoppable plug in for confluence and Jira.
> We are in the brainstorming portion of this project. One of my developers
> posed this question to me and I was kind of stumped on to answer him. He
> asked me the following:
>
> question: Is there a specific disability that should be focused on first
> or do we need to approach this as an all or nothing accessible training?
> Basically, should we focus on making our training accessible for a specific
> disability or should we try and focus on all of them?
>
> The way I look at this and I may be wrong is that it is hard to
> accommodate all disabilities and all user capabilities therefore you should
> try and pick what disabilities that you think would more likely to use the
> product? Can someone please tell me what the best approach is? Thanks.
>
> Sincerely,
> Nathan Clark
>
>
>