BANK AND SIMULATED EXAM QUESTIONS
2026.
⩥ What's the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities?
Answer: A UN human rights treaty that was adopted in 2006 and went
into effect in 2008, which was designed to change the way people
with disabilities are looked at from objects in need of charity and
medical diagnoses to subjects with rights and freedom. 163 countries
have signed it and 181 have ratified it.
In 2008 the Optional Protocol gave power to the Committee on the
Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
⩥ What is the Marrakesh Treaty? Answer: Created in 2013 and
became legally binding in 2016 by the World Intellectual Property
Organization with the main goal of creating a set of mandatory
limitations and exceptions for the benefit of the visual impaired. It
allows organizations to create non-print versions without violating
copyright.
⩥ What are the categories of laws relating to disabilities? Answer:
Civil rights laws, procurement laws, domain/industry-specific laws
⩥ What are civil rights laws? Answer: Laws that work to remove
discrimination in society to create equal opportunities for people with
disabilities (like the ADA, Accessibility for Ontarians with
, Disabilities Act, the UK Equality Act of 2010, and the Japanese Act
on the Elimination of Discrimination against Persons with
Disabilities)
⩥ What are procurement laws? Answer: Laws that regulate products
or services to ensure that they meet accessibility standards (like
Section 508 and the EN 301 549: "Accessibility requirements suitable
for public procurement of ICT products and services in Europe")
⩥ What are industry-specific laws? Answer: Laws that regulate
specific industries or technologies (like the 21st Century
Communications and Video Accessibility Act, the Air Carrier Access
Act, Web Standards for the Government of Canada, Standards sur
l'accessibilité du Web, and other country-specific regulations for
websites that are based on WCAG 1.0 or 2.0)
⩥ What are the three phases of the web development process?
Answer: Plan (set requirements and design the UX and UI), create
(write text content, make graphics and videos, write the front end and
back end code, add third party pieces), and test (code, content, and
multimedia)
⩥ What are ICT options for people with visual disabilities? Answer:
screen readers, braille keyboards, speech input, gestures on mobile,
haptic alerts, screen magnification tools
⩥ What are ICT options for people with hearing disabilities? Answer:
keyboards, video options for signing, teletype