{"id":16,"date":"2021-05-19T15:18:13","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T15:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/accessibility\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2021-07-07T13:47:49","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T13:47:49","slug":"barriers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/accessibility\/basics\/barriers\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Issues and Barriers to Access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/miro.medium.com\/max\/1600\/1*obag-1fTrXLwWUPkZEi-yw.png\" alt=\"Image of various barriers to digital accessibility. No captions, alt formats not accessible. \" width=\"344\" height=\"193\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Barriers to access may be obvious or not. Understanding the challenges to accessibility allows us to plan for a more inclusive university environment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Examples of barriers for people with cognitive, learning, and neurological disabilities:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Complex navigation mechanisms and page layouts that are difficult to understand and use.<\/li>\n<li>Complex sentences that are difficult to read and unusual words that are difficult to understand.<\/li>\n<li>Long passages of the text without images, graphs, or other illustrations to highlight the context.<\/li>\n<li>Moving, blinking, or flickering content, and background audio that cannot be turned off.<\/li>\n<li>Web browsers and media players do not provide mechanisms to suppress animations and audio.<\/li>\n<li>Visual page designs that cannot be adapted using web browser controls or custom style sheets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Examples of barriers for people with physical disabilities:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Websites, web browsers, and authoring tools that do not provide full keyboard support.<\/li>\n<li>Insufficient time limits to respond or to complete tasks, such as to fill out online forms.<\/li>\n<li>Controls, including links with images of text, that do not have equivalent text alternatives.<\/li>\n<li>Missing visual and non-visual orientation cues, page structure, and other navigational aids.<\/li>\n<li>Inconsistent, unpredictable, and overly complicated navigation mechanisms and page functions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barriers to access may be obvious or not. Understanding the challenges to accessibility allows us to plan for a more inclusive university environment. Examples of barriers for people with cognitive, learning, and neurological disabilities: Complex navigation mechanisms and page layouts &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"parent":12,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/accessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/accessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/accessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/accessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/accessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/accessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/accessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/accessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}