If you have an auditory disability you may have trouble hearing sounds on your computer.
If someone loses their hearing after acquiring language skills, they can come across the following accessibility barrier on a web page:
If you lost your hearing before you acquired language skills, the disability is frequently linked to problems with speaking, affecting your perception and understanding of sound information, and often of written information as well. This means that the following accessibility barriers are likely to be added to the barrier mentioned above:
To be able to use accessible web pages you need a simple vocabulary, short sentences, with diagrams for lengthy blocks of information, textual information based on images, subtitles or textual transcription of audio, etc.