Ian Pouncy, over at Opera, has a really great article on developing sites for users with cognitive disabilities and learning difficulties.
I think that the industry is getting a lot better about putting accessibility for those with physical impairments into Web design best practices, but cognitive and learning disabilities affect as much as 20% of the population and I haven't seen a lot happening for them. (For comparison, visual impairment affects about 3% of the population.)
Go read the article.
Full story at http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/2010/08/another_excellent_op.html
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