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Policy and Standards on Web Accessibility for Cognitive and Learning Disabilities

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Access to the Web for people with cognitive, language, and learning differences and limitations is widely recognized as important and becoming more important as Web content and Apps become ubiquitous. Yet progress has been slow, as indicated by limited support for cognitive accessibility within the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines process. How can this progress be accelerated, and how can research contribute to the increase in cognitive accessibility that is needed?

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    Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities http://www.un.org/disabilities/documents/convention/convoptprot-e.pdf.

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    https://www.w3.org/TR/coga-gap-analysis/#introduction.

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    Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities http://www.un.org/disabilities/documents/convention/convoptprot-e.pdf.

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    https://www.un.org/development/desa/disabilities/convention-on-the-rights-of-persons-with-disabilities.html.

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    http://www.europarl.europa.eu/charter/pdf/text_en.pdf

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     Employment Eq http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32000L0078:en:HTMLuality Directive (2000/78/EC)

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    https://www.w3.org/TR/coga-gap-analysis/.

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    To be published at https:/www.w3.org/tr/coga-useable/ (was https://www.w3.org/TR/coga-gap-analysis/index.html#appendix-making-content-usable-for-people-with-cognitive-and-learning-disabilities).

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    http://easy-to-read.eu/.

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    https://www.bdadyslexia.org.uk/common/ckeditor/filemanager/userfiles/About_Us/policies/Dyslexia_Style_Guide.pdf.

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    https://plainlanguage.gov/law/.

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    Lectura Fácil http://www.aenor.es/aenor/normas/normas/fichanorma.asp?tipo=N&codigo=N0060036&PDF=Si#.WyIc0y2RhE7 .

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    To be published at https://www.w3.org/tr/coga-useable/ (was https://www.w3.org/TR/coga-gap-analysis/index.html#appendix-making-content-usable-for-people-with-cognitive-and-learning-disabilities).

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, USA

    Clayton Lewis

  2. Athena ICT, Beit Shemesh, Israel

    Lisa Seeman

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  2. School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

    Simon Harper

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Lewis, C., Seeman, L. (2019). Policy and Standards on Web Accessibility for Cognitive and Learning Disabilities. In: Yesilada, Y., Harper, S. (eds) Web Accessibility. Human–Computer Interaction Series. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-7440-0_16

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