When is Display Screen Accessibility just so far from Accessible ?
Nigel Dupree
Project Director at S.M.A.R.T. Foundation - also known as: Legin Nyleve, LeginNyleve and @l3gin on other Social Media
Whilst an explainer from across the pond with reference to their disability legislation in affect that is the only difference between them and us.
Of course, the rights and responsibilities of employers / employee are founded in the 1974 act and followed-up with various legislation and regulation, although perhaps, it didn't envision the scale of digital interactions between "operator - equipment" nevertheless, the UK Equality Act 2010 rather covers that in terms of "Doing NO Harm" in that any "disability lasting up to 12 months or longer", would qualify under the act as, discrimination especially if "access not facilitated" and/or the risk of predictable injury due to deficits in accessibility is not reasonably mitigated.
Introducing Accessibility: What is Digital Accessibility
Introducing Accessibility: What is Digital Accessibility
In addition, in 2011 a retrospective case finally reached the high court of appeal, Baker v Quantun Clothing & Ors, that found "regardless of compliance with existing legislation at the time" (60's) the employers should have known better and rather than just expediently providing basic PPE that was in affect ineffective, were negligent and found for the plaintiffs.
Since then the no-win no-fee boys have had a field day with deafness claims and no doubt will as the "accessibility" moves toward being legislated be rubbing their hands together and pre-ordering ordering their Sun-Seekers - haha
Anyway, perhaps it's time to consider developing something similar, an explainer of the UK legislation as, so few in health and safety. occupational health agencies, professionals let alone employers have a clue about their responsibilities and remain reliant of expediently dismissing eye-strain, CVS, Screen Fatigue or worse the visual repetitive stress injuries / binocular vision loss as a "temporary anomaly", does no harm and, the employees will be alright in the morning - not
The other issue is that by far the majority of opticians are still stuck with received knowledge from their training days that adults do not have sufficient mental and/or visual "plasticity" to recover, restore or rehabilitate the stress related adaptations manifesting in monocular 2D vision.
And trust you have had a good weekend for all those doing the 9 to 5 routine as, the schools break-up for the summer holidays - just six weeks to get the 30% of children with sub-optimal reading rates up to speed and ready for their full immersion in the text based curriculum of the secondary experience.
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Trouble is, without reasonable intervention, far to many teenagers will be suffering binocular vision loss, well before arriving in the workplace where they will be at a 4 to 7 fold increased risk of myopic and asthenopic visual stress related adaptations to over-exposure to sub-optimal DSE ergonomics.
The NHS is doing it's best, accepting the participants in it's video promoting "exposure control" already present with early onset eye-strain, eye-turns, strabismus or symptoms of asthenopia in effect monocular 2D vision declared a Global Pandemic by the WHO scaled in their ICD-10
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So, in the meantime, while waiting for the "Accessibility" legislation, it will be a case of joining the S.M.A.R.T. Foundation "Self-Preservation Society" and risk assessing your own display screen along with adapting, customising or optimising screen settings to mitigate the risk of asthenopia.
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5 年I personally believe there is too much in the primary curriculum. It gets in the way of early intervention to remedy the lack of reading ability.