课程: Digital Accessibility for the Modern Workplace (with Audio Descriptions)

Common disabilities

- [Narrator] Hector stands in a white room with bookshelves and a fireplace. - The topic of disability can be complex and super simple all at the same time. One person's characteristics might be incredibly disabling in one scenario, and not disabling at all in another. Consider for a moment a telephone call. - [Narrator] In an office, a man with a goatee speaks on a cell phone. - A blind individual will not find this interaction inherently disabling at all, whereas a deaf person will. However, the same call using conference software with multiple people on the call all talking over one another, with no discernible difference between speakers sometimes becomes disabling. - [Narrator] In a living room, a woman sits at a laptop with multiple people on a video call. - A product like Microsoft Teams is an amazing new way of working - [Narrator] A Microsoft Teams window displays text discussions of a marketing team. - Voice, chat, embedded apps for the workplace. But this, too, can feel much harder to navigate for some. In this lesson, I want to help you understand and uncover gaps in your own thinking, so you can begin to be more inclusive of people with disabilities. First, you need to recognize that disabilities can exist at many different levels. If you're like most people, you might be thinking, "We don't have any blind or deaf colleagues." Be careful here. Many people with disabilities will cover a disability in the workplace. For example, 75% of people with dyslexia do not tell their employer. They're not asking for accommodations in training or performance reviews. Next, recognize many people have partial disabilities. Consider someone working in construction losing their hearing, or someone aging in the workplace with deteriorating vision. An important distinction here is that disability is something that can be acquired gradually or suddenly. It's not always obvious. Another important point is to not think of disability in the singular. Many individuals have multiple disabilities and experience different levels of impairment for each. You need to widen your scope of disabilities to help you get buy-in to the topic within your place of work. - [Narrator] Text: Forms of Disability. - I would suggest that you consider disabilities in six forms: vision, hearing, motor dexterity, cognition and learning, mental health, and speech. Successful technologies will take into account the experiences of all disability types. So remember these points and realize that most disabilities are hidden. They can exist in many different forms. There's nuance here. Once you establish the real representation of disability that exists in your organization, you'll begin to be able to build your confidence on the topic, which, in turn, will help your journey towards building a more inclusive organization.

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