These simulations ask you to visit a website or install a Chrome extension that may simulate the experience of different disabilities interacting with online content. You may experience discomfort and desire to look away or exit the simulation entirely. Please realize you have the privilege to look away and stop during these simulations. People with disabilities do not have this privilege. Your brief experience with a simulation can not replicate the experience of a person with a disability interacting online.
There are many different conditions that can effect vision temporarily or permanently and effect all ages. World Health Organization estimates there are 285 million people world-wide with low vision or blindness.
World Health Organization estimates there are 360 million people world wide with hearing loss (40db in adults or 30dB in children). In the United States, it is estimated that 20% of the population has some degree of hearing loss.
Color blindness affects 1 in 12 men and 1 in 200 women.
Many people with limited mobility, rely on assistive technologies such as speech input software and alternate keyboard devices to navigate online.
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