Intellectual, cognitive and mental disabilities

There is a wide range of intellectual, cognitive and mental disabilities.
For example, cognitive and learning disabilities affect perception, memory, language, attention, problem solving and understanding.

Therefore, care should be taken to ensure that:

• content can be presented in different ways;
• make it easier for users to see and hear the content;
• allow sufficient time for the user to read and use the content;
• provide navigational aids;
• ensure that content can be read and understood;
• help users avoid and correct errors.

There are assistive technologies to interact with content, such as:

• screen reader to hear information as it is read;
• resizing text and spacing;
• grammatical or syntactic assistance software for writing.