Practical Web Accessibility: A Comprehensive Guide to Digital Inclusion

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A. FirthPractical Web Accessibilityhttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-0152-5_3

3. Low Vision and Color Blindness

Ashley Firth¹  

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London, UK

 

We’ve covered a lot of work on accessibility for blind users, but the vast majority of users with sight-based access needs actually have other forms of visual impairment. The World Health Organization estimates that at least 2.2 billion people globally have a near or distance vision impairment, and in at least 1 billion cases, this impairment has yet to be addressed.¹ There are an estimated 39 million people living with blindness in the world, but over 250 million people with low vision (significant visual impairment ...