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Designing for
Accessibility and Inclusion
During my time at Amplify, I developed strong skills in accessible, inclusive design practices to ensure that all teachers and children can experience the educational materials. Below are two practices I've used most commonly within the past year to fulfill accessibility standards.
1. Contrast and color use are vital to accessibility because users, especially those with visual disabilities, have to be able to perceive all content on a digital page. Using the WebAIM Contrast Checker, I worked with a variety of Amplify Social Studies artwork files to adjust colors and contrast to ensure maximum accessibility.
Before:
After:
2. Color blindness or color vision deficiency (CVD) affects around 1 in 12 men and 1 in 200 women worldwide. Most color blind people are able to see things just as clearly as the rest of the population, the difference is their inability to distinguish red, green, or blue light. To make sure that all of the artwork, maps and charts for our Amplify Social Studies curriculum are readable by the widest possible audience, our team used the Color Oracle color blindness simulator to test a full screen filter layered above all artwork files before being finalized and submitted. This proved especially important in the cases of maps that contained color-coded legends because the reader definitely needs to be able to distinguish one color shade from another in order to fully understand the content being taught.
Before (original colors)
Before (Deuteranopia filter showing that the colors in the
legend will look too similar to one another)
After (original colors)
After (Deuteranopia filter showing that the colors have enough
contrast to be distinguishable for everyone, regardless of
visual impairment)
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