RHFAC Test Complete Questions with
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• accessibility -✓✓degree to which a product, device, activity, facility,
service or environment allows everyone to participate fully and is
available to everyone on an equal basis
• Meaningful access -✓✓access that meets the real accessibility needs of
all users of a Site, regardless of their physical ability
• Seeing -✓✓sensory disability, includes people with blindness and low
vision
• Hearing -✓✓sensory disability, includes people with partial hearing
loss to total hearing loss
• Physical disabilities -✓✓includes mobility, flexibility, dexterity, and
pain
• Learning disabilities -✓✓affects acquision, organization, retention,
understanding or use of verbal or non-verbal information
• Developmental disabilities -✓✓occur from birth or early childhood,
inhibit or delay an individual's ability to perform a number of tasks
• Mental health related -✓✓disorders that affect mood, thinking and
behaviour
• Memory -✓✓affects storage, retention, and recollection of memories
• Communication disabilities -✓✓impact speaking or understanding
spoken language, can overlap with other challenges such as learning
,difficulties, cognitive challenges, or an aspect of autism spectrum
disorders, mental health-related problems, or hearing-related conditions
• Visible vs. invisible disabilities -✓✓physical are often visible, learning
disability or mental health are hidden
• Medical model of disability -✓✓disability as a medical condition and
expects the person with the disability to change to fit with society
• Social model of disability -✓✓method of looking at the disability
experience considers an individual's needs in the context of wider
society. Focuses on barriers created by society
• Barriers to Accessibility -✓✓Accessibility for Ontarians with
Disabilities Act identifies five barriers—attitudinal, architectural and
physical, organizational or systemic, information or communications,
technology
• attitudinal barriers -✓✓behaviours, perceptions and assumptions that
discriminate against persons with disabilities
Assuming a person with a physical disability is not capable of being
employed,
Assuming a person with hearing loss cannot effectively communicate
socially or in a work setting,
Assuming that someone with vision loss cannot navigate public
transportation, city streets or even a filing cabinet,
Assuming that a person with mental health issues cannot handle stress.
• Architectural or Physical -✓✓elements of buildings or outdoor spaces
that block or limit access to persons with disabilities,
, Sidewalks, hallways, and doorways that are too narrow for a wheelchair,
scooter or walker,
Counters or desks that are too high for persons of short stature or
someone using a wheelchair, or other mobility device, to interact with
staff or to carry out a transaction,
Poor lighting that makes it difficult for a person with low vision to see or
for someone who lip-reads or uses sign language,
Doorknobs that are difficult to grasp for a person with arthritis,
telephones that are not equipped with telecommunications devices for
people who are deaf or hard of hearing,
lack of visual fire alarms could mean that a person with a hearing
disability is working in an area that is unsafe for them.
• Organizational or Systemic -✓✓policies, procedures or practices that
discriminate and prevent people with disabilities from participating fully
in an opportunity available to others,
An employment equity program that does not provide a hiring process
that is open to people with disabilities:
No hiring forms/applications in Braille, large print or other alternative
formats,
No telephone device for the deaf (TDD) so that people with hearing loss
can talk directly to HR staff,
Physically inaccessible offices,
Rigid office hours or dress codes
• Information or communications barriers -✓✓happen when a person
can't easily understand information,
Print that is too small or in a font that is difficult to read,
Videos that are not captioned and/or don't have transcriptions,
Signs that are not clear or easily understood,
Websites that can't be accessed by people who are not able to use a
mouse or view a conventional screen,
Handouts or printed material that are available only in hard copies
Accurate Answers | Verified | A+
• accessibility -✓✓degree to which a product, device, activity, facility,
service or environment allows everyone to participate fully and is
available to everyone on an equal basis
• Meaningful access -✓✓access that meets the real accessibility needs of
all users of a Site, regardless of their physical ability
• Seeing -✓✓sensory disability, includes people with blindness and low
vision
• Hearing -✓✓sensory disability, includes people with partial hearing
loss to total hearing loss
• Physical disabilities -✓✓includes mobility, flexibility, dexterity, and
pain
• Learning disabilities -✓✓affects acquision, organization, retention,
understanding or use of verbal or non-verbal information
• Developmental disabilities -✓✓occur from birth or early childhood,
inhibit or delay an individual's ability to perform a number of tasks
• Mental health related -✓✓disorders that affect mood, thinking and
behaviour
• Memory -✓✓affects storage, retention, and recollection of memories
• Communication disabilities -✓✓impact speaking or understanding
spoken language, can overlap with other challenges such as learning
,difficulties, cognitive challenges, or an aspect of autism spectrum
disorders, mental health-related problems, or hearing-related conditions
• Visible vs. invisible disabilities -✓✓physical are often visible, learning
disability or mental health are hidden
• Medical model of disability -✓✓disability as a medical condition and
expects the person with the disability to change to fit with society
• Social model of disability -✓✓method of looking at the disability
experience considers an individual's needs in the context of wider
society. Focuses on barriers created by society
• Barriers to Accessibility -✓✓Accessibility for Ontarians with
Disabilities Act identifies five barriers—attitudinal, architectural and
physical, organizational or systemic, information or communications,
technology
• attitudinal barriers -✓✓behaviours, perceptions and assumptions that
discriminate against persons with disabilities
Assuming a person with a physical disability is not capable of being
employed,
Assuming a person with hearing loss cannot effectively communicate
socially or in a work setting,
Assuming that someone with vision loss cannot navigate public
transportation, city streets or even a filing cabinet,
Assuming that a person with mental health issues cannot handle stress.
• Architectural or Physical -✓✓elements of buildings or outdoor spaces
that block or limit access to persons with disabilities,
, Sidewalks, hallways, and doorways that are too narrow for a wheelchair,
scooter or walker,
Counters or desks that are too high for persons of short stature or
someone using a wheelchair, or other mobility device, to interact with
staff or to carry out a transaction,
Poor lighting that makes it difficult for a person with low vision to see or
for someone who lip-reads or uses sign language,
Doorknobs that are difficult to grasp for a person with arthritis,
telephones that are not equipped with telecommunications devices for
people who are deaf or hard of hearing,
lack of visual fire alarms could mean that a person with a hearing
disability is working in an area that is unsafe for them.
• Organizational or Systemic -✓✓policies, procedures or practices that
discriminate and prevent people with disabilities from participating fully
in an opportunity available to others,
An employment equity program that does not provide a hiring process
that is open to people with disabilities:
No hiring forms/applications in Braille, large print or other alternative
formats,
No telephone device for the deaf (TDD) so that people with hearing loss
can talk directly to HR staff,
Physically inaccessible offices,
Rigid office hours or dress codes
• Information or communications barriers -✓✓happen when a person
can't easily understand information,
Print that is too small or in a font that is difficult to read,
Videos that are not captioned and/or don't have transcriptions,
Signs that are not clear or easily understood,
Websites that can't be accessed by people who are not able to use a
mouse or view a conventional screen,
Handouts or printed material that are available only in hard copies
