[Year 12 IT Apps] ITA exam - B2 - accessibility

[Mark]

Does anyone else have a sneaking fear that this second question in section
B is misinterpreting the word "accessibility"?

We in VCE IT have (AFAIK) always understood 'accessibility' as referring to
catering for special needs or disabilities.

This question smells to me as if it's referring to "ease of
loading/finding". Try answering it with a "special needs" view of
accessibility, and see how far you get.

Frustratingly, the current study design does not define accessibility, and
it even muddies the water by including this in the glossary's definition of
'design elements'...

*"In this study the elements related to functionality are structure,
usability and accessibility, including navigation and load time,
appropriateness and relevance."*

This makes it sound like accessibility includes navigation and load time
(curse their ambiguous punctuation) which is definitely not related to
disabilities.

Yet the Nelson/Potts textbooks seems to agree that 'accessibility' relates
to factors like colour blindness, reduced language skills etc.

The problem is that I can't find a VCE IT source for this 'accessibility'
convention.
Does anyone remember where this interpretation of accessibility came from
years ago?

Or have I slipped several cogs and is question B2 quite appropriate and
right? Has the exam question writer read the study design and made a quite
valid (but wrong) interpretation of the word?

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