Situational disabilities

Situational impairments are caused by environmental factors or specific situations that affect an individual's abilities.

Examples of situational disabilities include people holding a baby, wearing headphones or have glare affecting the screen on their device.

Line drawing of an person holding a device with the sun shining off the screen

Sun or glare

Line drawing of a person wearing headphones

Wearing headphones

Line drawing of a person holding a baby

Holding a baby

Line drawing of a person with speech bubbles with non-English characters shown

Foreign language

Line drawing of a person with tired looking eyes and zz above their head symbolising sleep

Tiredness

It's important to understand how people use our products and services, and the situations they're using them in, to avoid introducing barriers.

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