Major Categories of Disability Types

The following information can also be found on the Web Aim website, https://webaim.org/intro/

The major categories of disability types are:

  Eye–Visual

Blindness, low vision, color-blindness

  Ear-–Hearing

Deafness and hard-of-hearing

 Hand–Motor

Inability to use a mouse, slow response time, limited fine motor control

 Brain–Cognitive

Learning disabilities, distractibility, inability to remember or focus on large amounts of information