ASP 305 Accessibility and User Experience

Question 1

What is the purpose of the IFC International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health,

Answer 1

IFC is a classification of health and health-related domains. Because the functioning and disability of an individual occurs in a context, ICF also includes a list of environmental factors. This is a bio-psycho-social model.

Question 2

What is WHA 54.21

Answer 2

the International standard to describe and measure health and disability

Question 3

What is the Frame work for IFC

Answer 3

The World Health Organization (WHO) framework for measuring health and disability at both individual and population levels. ICF was officially endorsed by all 191 WHO Member States in the Fifty-fourth World Health Assembly on 22 May 2001 (resolution WHA 54.21Links to an external site.) as the international standard to describe and measure health and disability.

Question 4

The WHO ICF Model of Disability

Answer 4

The context: This includes all the factors of the person’s life that they have no control over: age, location, family, current events, school or work.
Cultural influences are part of context, including stigma and traditions.
Popular culture includes widely recognized representation (or lack of representation) of the condition.

Personal factors: Age, interests, work or school, prior experiences, other health issues besides the condition of interest. Intersectionality includes personal experiences that might be related, such as experiencing stigma or marginalization for a different personal characteristic like gender or race.

Environmental factors: Natural habitat climate and terrain; Build environment (urbal or rural); Housing condition and public health conditions.
Health conditions may be temporary, permanent, intermittent, or situational.

The impairment may be systemic, functional, or cosmetic.
The activity limitation is any activity affected by the condition, or any activity that is improved with intervention.

The participation restriction is imposed not by the condition but by barriers of the built environment and policies of others, whether by organizations or individuals, public or private. It includes social stigma and social stigma.

Question 5

Define disability etiquette

Question 6

Distinguish between theoretical models of disability, e.g. medical, social, economic, functional, identity, moral, charity, and destiny, and examine the implications of beliefs and attitudes about disability on public and personal perceptions of disability.

Question 7

Differentiate categories and levels of disability and common barriers associated with them (i.e., eligibility and entitlement).

Question 8

Define assistive technologies and their uses.

Question 9

List prominent legal documents and landmark events related to disability and human rights.

Question 10

Survey current careers requiring competence in troubleshooting accessibility.