Great Accessibility Online
Our world is changing faster than ever before. With more and more people becoming aware about disabilities, it is important to know your numbers.
Schein and Delk (1974) reported that 91.7% of the deaf persons in the NCDP came from families where both parents were identified as hearing (based upon a stratified, random sample, household survey of 1,838 persons drawn from the census, from which 1,476 individual responses were collected).
Ross Mitchell. PDF. Chasing the Mythical Ten Percent: Parental Hearing Status of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students in the United States
The German Sign Language is used not only by around 80,000 deaf people, but also by people with cochlear implants or children of deaf parents.
Source: UNESCO. German Sign Language – DGS
The percentage of Montana students ages 6-21 with hearing impairments in 2011 was .05%.
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There are 16,554 individuals aged 18-64 who are deaf.
Source: Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services. Hearing Impairment
In the UK, 8% of profoundly deaf people communicate by sign language alone. They don’t read English.
Sarah Winters, Accessibility is usability
Because when we have an inaccessible site, we are telling a quarter of the U.S. and Canadian population, 15% of the people worldwide, that your voice isn’t important.
Donna Bungard, Accessibility Program Manager
The World Health Organization suggests there are more than 1.3 billion people on Earth with a disability. Source: World Health Organization (2022)
The latest estimates suggest there are more than 8.1 billion people on Earth. Source: World Population Clock