HCI for people with disabilites

1. Manually impaired users

2. Visually impaired users

3. Hearing-impaired users

4. Cognitively impaired users

• Legal requirements to make software and websites accessible:

• Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
• Presidential Directive for Federal Government sites
• Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 for colleges
• Institutional directives (e.g., UCI's Electronic Communications Policy)

• Guidelines for making software and websites accessible (e.g., from WAI)

• Software tools for, e.g.,

• validating the accessibility of web pages
• making computers accessible (preferences, settings)