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How People with Disabilities use Digital Technology.

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Marta,

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a marketing assistant

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who is Deaf and blind.

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Hi!

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I'm Marta,

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a marketing assistant at my school for the Deaf.

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I'm Deaf-blind.

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I was born Deaf

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and have progressive vision loss,

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which means I can still see things

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if they're large and up-close

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but I see less and less each year.

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As a Deaf child,

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I learned sign language early on.

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This is why technology

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is so important to me-

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it allows me to communicate with more people.

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At home,

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I have a computer

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that can enlarge my documents up to 20 times.

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I have a big screen

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but can still only see a very small portion of the screen,

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and an even smaller portion of the documents

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because it's like looking through a magnification lens.

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I can find my way around documents

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with headings and sections that look different.

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For example, this briefing sheet uses

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a color for the headings

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that is different from the main content,

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which makes it easier for me to recognize them.

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Oh, and I'm learning to use braille too.

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Braille are those dots that you read

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with your fingers,

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and I have this really cool device

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called a “refreshable braille display” -

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it's a small device

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that I can take with me everywhere,

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unlike my computer.

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It has apps for email, web and chat,

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and some have a special keyboard

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for typing in braille.

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I read the braille characters

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in a row on the device,

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which I'm slowly getting used to.

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It's always difficult to learn to use something new at first

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but I'm getting better at reading and typing braille.

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But not all websites and apps work well with magnification

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or on my braille display.

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Like when I need to look up the bus schedule

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to meet up with my friends -

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that table doesn't work well when I enlarge it on my phone.

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And forget about trying to read it in braille.

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I can't tell what row or column I'm in

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and it just jumps all over the place!

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It makes me nervous

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because I can't as easily ask for help

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from people around me while I'm out,

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so I've been learning how to speak up

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and ask companies for more accessible websites and apps

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 to help me stay independent.

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You can help

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make technology

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accessible

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to me.

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Accessibility: It's about people. 

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For more information from the Web Accessibility Initiative

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on how people with Disabilities use Digital Technology,

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visit w3.org/WAI/people