Re: Question on Terminology

I agree with Shawn.

"impairment" is just fine. Here are Wikipedia links for Visual impairment
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_impairment> and disability
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disability>. To me "impairment" sounds more
sense.

Best,
Srini

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On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 4:34 AM, Shawn Henry <shawn@w3.org> wrote:

> Good question to ask!
>
> I do not know (either personally or documented) of any particular
> objection to "impairment" among people with low vision. Many people I know
> with mild/moderate low vision prefer "impairment" to "disability", and
> "impairment" generally works better than "disability" for describing
> age-related issues.
>
> A related question is terminology around "color vision deficiency". That
> is the terminology I see used most in formal descriptions, along with
> "color blind"/"color blindness". Given the later is common lay-person
> terminology, I think we should use it where appropriate.
>
> On the other hand, in most cases, color blindness is not considered a
> disability (nor low vision) and I think we should avoid calling it a
> disability in our documentation.
>
> My 2 cents. :-)
>
> ~Shawn
>
>
>
>
> On 1/11/2016 1:41 PM, Laura Carlson wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> This may be a stupid question but I was rereading the overview [1] and
>> noticed the word "Impairment" is used several times. Is the word okay
>> to use for people with visual disabilities or like the term "hearing
>> impaired", some object as it describes the condition in terms of a
>> deficiency?
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Kindest Regards,
>> Laura
>> [1]
>> https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/low-vision-a11y-tf/wiki/Overview_of_Low_Vision#Overview_of_Low_Vision
>> [2] http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/access/who/#words
>>
>>
>