Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts Accessibility Online Course

We're All Disabled!

"We're all disabled."  That may seem like a strange statement to ponder at first, but it is completely true.  Nobody is one hundred percent perfect, and so in effect we all suffer from some kind of disability.

It is easy to think about deafness and blindness as disabilities, as well as anything that confines a person to a wheelchair, but there are many other kinds of disabilities that can affect people, many of them completely undetectable by anyone else.  There are also many temporary disabilities that one can experience which could reduce a person's ability to interact with a computer.  Let's explore just a few of these to see what they might be like.