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print disability

print disability noun: any disability (such as blindness, dyslexia, etc.) which prevents someone from reading printed text.

Noun

print disability (plural print disabilities)

  1. Any disability (such as blindness, dyslexia, etc.) which prevents someone from reading printed text.
    • Embedded graphics also pose significant problems for people with print disabilities. Many publications included graphs, tables, and images. Almost universally, the ebooks that included visual representations of information did not provide any description of the content of these graphics.2014 November 14, Paul Harpur, Nicolas Suz, “The paradigm shift in realising the right to read: how ebook libraries are enabling in the university sector”, in Disability & Society, volume 29, number...
    • Students with print disabilities including visual impairments and dyslexia now have free digital access to more than 500,000 academic books at their fingertips, through the Bookshare.ie digital accessible library specifically designed for them.2020 September 11, “Access to 500,000 academic books for students with print disabilities”, in Irish Independent, Dublin: Mediahuis Ireland, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Jul 2023

Forms of print disability

pluralprint disabilities

Questions about print disability

What does print disability mean?
Print disability means any disability (such as blindness, dyslexia, etc.) which prevents someone from reading printed text.
What part of speech is print disability?
Print disability is a noun.
What is the plural of print disability?
The plural of print disability is print disabilities.

Words near print disability in the dictionary

  1. print
  2. print bed
  3. print beds
  4. print butter
  5. print disabilities
  6. print disability
  7. print disabled
  8. print head
  9. print heads
  10. print media
  11. print money

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