Personalized Accessibility

An approach to accessibility evaluation and design that considers the specific disability profile, capabilities, and needs of individual users rather than treating accessibility as a single universal property. Personalized accessibility evaluation tools filter WCAG success criteria by relevance to specific disability types — for example, evaluating a page only against criteria relevant to hearing impairment rather than all criteria. Research shows that personalized evaluations produce significantly different results from generic all-disabilities evaluations: cognitive impairment profiles encounter roughly one-third of the barriers found in generic evaluations, while vision and hearing profiles encounter about two-thirds. This approach enables users to ask "Is this page accessible to me?" and helps organisations prioritise remediation based on their actual user demographics.