Skip to Content
Practical Web Accessibility: A Comprehensive Guide to Digital Inclusion
book

Practical Web Accessibility: A Comprehensive Guide to Digital Inclusion

by Ashley Firth
April 2024
Beginner to intermediate
562 pages
13h 58m
English
Apress
Content preview from Practical Web Accessibility: A Comprehensive Guide to Digital Inclusion
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to APress Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2024
A. FirthPractical Web Accessibilityhttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-0152-5_5

5. Deafness and Hard of Hearing

Ashley Firth1  
(1)
London, UK
 

Hearing loss is extremely common. It’s estimated that around 20% of the world’s population – 1.5 billion people – are affected by hearing loss in at least one ear. More than 5% of the world’s population – 430 million people – are hearing-impaired, and more than 70 million people are deaf.1 It’s thought that by 2050, over 700 million people (1 in 10) around the world will be affected by disabling hearing loss.2 With deafness being such a common disability and set to become even more prominent, we need to ensure that more ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

Inclusive Design for a Digital World: Designing with Accessibility in Mind

Inclusive Design for a Digital World: Designing with Accessibility in Mind

Reginé M. Gilbert
Inclusive Design for Accessibility

Inclusive Design for Accessibility

Dale Cruse, Denis Boudreau

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9798868801525Purchase LinkPublisher Website