18 | WCAG 2 Read & Learn | Part 5 | Diverse Abilities and Barriers - Visual

** Captions are Auto-Generated ** Diverse Abilities & Barriers – Visual (Part 5) | WCAG Explained – Day 18 of 100 Wrapping up the Diverse Abilities and Barriers section, today's video covers visual disabilities — a spectrum ranging from low vision to blindness, plus color vision differences that are independent of visual acuity. 📖 References & Content Copyright https://www.w3.org/WAI/people/ https://www.w3.org/WAI/people-use-web... https://www.w3.org/WAI/people-use-web... Copyright © 2026 World Wide Web Consortium. https://www.w3.org/copyright/document... **************************** In this video, I share my understanding of: What visual disabilities cover: color vision deficiency, low vision (light sensitivity, contrast sensitivity, field-of-vision loss), blindness, and deaf-blindness How people adapt digital content to their needs — resizing text, customizing fonts/colors/spacing, text-to-speech, audio description, and refreshable Braille Why separating content from presentation (via style sheets and correct semantic structure) is what makes all of that possible in the first place Real barriers: missing text alternatives, layouts that break or lose information when resized, insufficient color contrast, and no support for custom color schemes Why relying on color alone (instead of pairing it with text or symbols like an asterisk) locks out a meaningful chunk of users How this ties together four stories already covered in the series — Lakshmi (Day 7), Lexie (Day 8), Marta (Day 11), and Elias (Day 13) This wraps up the full "Diverse Abilities and Barriers" section (auditory, cognitive, physical, speech, and visual). This series is my personal learning journal — I'm not a W3C expert, just someone committed to reading the source material and explaining it in plain language. 🔔 Subscribe to follow the full 100-day journey 💬 Corrections, questions, and discussion welcome in the comments — this is a learning-in-public series #WebAccessibility #WCAG #A11y #W3C #AccessibilityForAll #DiverseAbilities Content adapted from the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), © World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Used under W3C's permissive document license: https://www.w3.org/copyright/software...