ENSURING INFORMATION ACCESSIBILITY FOR PEOPLE WITH COGNITIVE DISABILITIES (REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTS AND RESEARCH)
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.32782/inclusion/2024.3.12Keywords:
information availability, international documents, limitations of activity, person with disabilities, cognitive disabilities, easy readAbstract
The article provides an analysis of the content of international documents on ensuring accessibility for people with disabilities. The articles of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities were analyzed, which reveal the meaning of the concept of “accessibility” and describe the main characteristics of information accessibility. The purpose of the article is to analyze in detail international legal documents, standards and scientific research on ensuring information accessibility for people with cognitive disabilities. It was determined that information availability is a priority area of many international organizations, in particular UNESCO and the World Health Organization. Public non-profit organizations around the world (Plain Language Action and Information Network, Inclusion Europe, Netzwerk Leichte Sprache, AbilityNet and others) consider the need to ensure information accessibility for people with cognitive disabilities as one of the areas of their activity to protect the interests of this category of people. The main directions of scientific research on the availability of information for people with cognitive disabilities are outlined: 1) coverage of the content of the practical developments of specialists; 2) involvement of people with cognitive disabilities in working groups for the development and assessment of the availability of information resource; 3) targeted observations of the use of available information resources by people with cognitive disabilities in everyday life; 4) assessment of the accessibility of the adapted information format for people with cognitive disabilities. The algorithm for creating accessible information resources in an easy-to-read format is analyzed, which includes: project development; creating a layout; requirements for the use of special vocabulary of the document; compliance with the rules of writing sentences; execution of layout design; compliance with image selection rules; verification of the text by the target audience.
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