The author wants to teach the reader about the types of disabilities that are experienced by consumers. The reader may be a business owner, marketing executive or anyone who wants to learn more about the types of disabilities experienced by consumers.
The author is part of a company called Quantum Tech which specializes in creating websites and apps that are accessible for people with disabilities. This infographic is part of a blog post on their website. The infographic is presented in an easy to read format with simple sentences, text boxes, and visuals.
The author has no personal stake in presenting this information and does not try to persuade the reader to take any kind of action. The tone is professional and informative.
The three most common types of disability in the United States are visual, hearing, and cognitive. In the infographic below you can see that the greatest number of consumers experience more than one type of disability.
The infographic illustrates the percentage of consumers who experience different types of disabilities and how they overlap. The colors used in this infographic were chosen to show the relationships between visual and hearing disabilities as well as cognitive disabilities and other disabilities.
For more information on disabilities that overlap please visit Disabilities That Overlap With Visual Impairments or Disabilities That Overlap With Hearing Loss.
Most Common Types Of Disability:
Visual – 21% (43 million Americans)
Hearing – 20% (37 million Americans)
Cognitive – 17% (12 million Americans)
The U.S. Census Bureau reported that 56 million Americans live with a disability in 2010. In fact, 1 in 5 people in the United States has some type of disability. The infographic below titled Understanding Disability Facts and Figures from Disability Benefits Help aims to educate its readers on disabilities and the myths behind them. It shows the different types of disabilities such as physical, intellectual and learning disabilities and how they affect people differently. The top three most common disabilities are:
Mobility Disabilities: Having trouble walking or climbing stairs
Hearing Disabilities: Having trouble hearing or being deaf
Cognitive Disabilities: Having trouble learning or remembering information
I’ve heard it said that if you have your health, you have everything. Unfortunately, most of us will experience a chronic health condition at some point in our lives. The National Institutes of Health characterize chronic illnesses as those lasting three months or longer and include conditions like cancer, diabetes and obesity. The NIH further notes that an estimated 133 million people in the United States alone are affected by one chronic illness or another.
Chronic illnesses can be life-changing. They can limit your mobility, affect your ability to work and impact your relationships with friends and family members. It’s important to note that not all physical disabilities are obvious to the casual observer. In fact, many people manage their symptoms on a daily basis without even appearing sick to others.
I’ve compiled a list of common types of disabilities below:
Physical Disabilities: These include conditions like spinal cord injuries, cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis and arthritis. Symptoms of physical disabilities may include paralysis, partial or full loss of vision or hearing and impaired motor skills.
Developmental Disabilities: This broad category includes autism spectrum disorders and learning disabilities such as dyslexia and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Symptoms may include impaired social skills and/or difficulties with reading, writing or math.
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The tech industry has a reputation for fostering innovation, so it’s no surprise that the sector is leading the way in employing people with disabilities.
In fact, one of the largest employers of people with autism is SAP, a German software company that aims to employ 1,500 people on the autism spectrum by 2020. Last year, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced plans to hire more people with autism and expand its autism hiring program.
As tech companies rush to fill jobs in a competitive market, they’re looking beyond the traditional interview process. Hiring managers are more interested in aptitude than grade point average and are finding that candidates with different ways of thinking can bring fresh ideas and valuable skills to the workplace.
To help job seekers with disabilities navigate the application process, we’ve put together an infographic that sheds light on common misconceptions about disabilities.
A new technology is emerging that promises to be as revolutionary as the internet in the 1990s. Contrary to what many observers have assumed, this technological revolution will not be centred around software and consumer devices, but rather around a new kind of hardware called quantum tech.
Quantum tech is already used in many of our everyday lives. For example, it enables global positioning systems to calculate our exact location with extraordinary precision and powers nuclear reactors by controlling the speed of neutrons inside them.
Quantum tech is more versatile than traditional electronics because it harnesses some of the most fundamental properties of nature: quantum superposition and quantum entanglement. By using these properties, quantum tech can solve certain problems much faster than traditional computers do, and it can perform calculations that traditional computers cannot do at all.
This versatile new technology will ultimately transform every field of science and engineering as well as society itself. It will bring about an age of “quantum supremacy” just as electronics did half a century ago when they ushered in our current digital age.
The Silicon Valley start-up Rigetti Computing has been working on the challenge of building a large-scale quantum computer for several years now, and it recently unveiled its first commercial machine, which has 19 qubits (see “19