This week, I tried to organize the information that I would present in the first video of my tutorial series, tentatively titled “What Is Web Accessibility (And Why Should You Care)”. The video would introduce the concept of web accessibility, and use research to back up why it is important. This information would also be included in my project proposal, as a way of demonstrating the potential value of these tutorials. I already described some of the information I found in my last research update, but I have found some new facts as well.

This source from the CDC explains what percentage of the US population has a disability. According to them, 26% of people in the US have some sort of disability (roughly 1 in 4, or 61 million). Some more specific statistics:

• Vision Impairments: 4.6%
• Hearing Impairments: 5.9%
• Cognitive Impairments: 10.8%

Web accessibility resources tend to focus on the three types of disabilities listed above, as well as motor impairments, which the CDC does not have a statistic for.

I also continued to try and find research on people’s perceptions of web accessibility, but had trouble finding anything that wasn’t more than a decade old.