RE: Another Attempt (was: Sentence in COGA Note)

While I know we want to be sensitive – we honestly don’t know if it was unintentional or not.   One company I can think of has an inaccessible pizza ordering app but yet claims there are alternatives such as calling on the phone.  I’ve seen sites that purposely removed the keyboard focus because they thought it was ugly and annoying to users.

Jonathan

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Subject: Another Attempt (was: Sentence in COGA Note)

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How about instead:

""People with cognitive and learning disabilities may be negatively impacted and unintentionally blocked from effectively using some web content due to certain design and content choices."

JF

On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 1:15 PM David MacDonald <david@can-adapt.com<mailto:david@can-adapt.com>> wrote:
Hi all

on the call today there was quite a lively discussion around this sentence.

CURRENT
"People with cognitive and learning disabilities may not be able to effectively use web content because of the design and content choices of the author."

I've gone back and tried to capture the essence of Lisa's rationale, while steering the focus to the design/content and rather than the author. I also used John Avila's word "impact" rather than "because".

SUGGESTED
Design and content choices can impact the content in ways that make it difficult or impossible for some users with cognitive and learning disabilities to use this content.

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