Analyze and plan the transformation of an existing experience using
gamification techniques while integrating inclusive,
socio-emotional, entertainment, and
universal design
strategies.
Color Oracle: Simulates color blindness
Web Aim: an Accessible Design Web Checker Contrast Checker
Color Picker: This an be used to meet the legal requirements for contrast (can't open logged into through MSU - use your personal account)
Universal Design: Universal Design (UD) is the design and composition of an environment so that it can be accessed, understood and used to the greatest extent possible by all people regardless of their age, size, ability or disability. - Center for Excellence in Universal Design
Accessible Design: The Legal Requirements laid out by the ADA - Americans with Disabilities Act
Minimum Accommodation: Accessibility is the technical minimum accommodation required by laws such as the Americans With Disabilities Act.
Multiple Modes of Access: Giving your audience multiple ways of accessing your media, such as through sound, visuals, images and video.
Color Blindess: (color vision deficiency), it means a person sees colors differently than most people. Most of the time, color vision deficiency makes it hard to tell the difference between certain colors. -NIH
Deuteranopia: Deutan color vision deficiencies are by far the most common forms of color blindness. This subtype of red-green color blindness is found in about 6% of the male population, mostly in its mild form deuteranomaly.
Color Contrast: There are legal requirements for color contrast for public facing media. There are tools that you can use to ensure you are meeting these requirements.
Screen Reader: An assistive technology where the computer plugin or system reads the headers, the words and alt tags in the images. Experience a screen reader in action here.
Chroma Vision Simulator App to use on your phone
"The fundamental right of freedom of expression encompasses the freedom to “to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers”."
-United Nations and the Rule of Law
"We can’t prevent all the challenges students will face, but we can help to alleviate them by designing a learning environment that leaves no room for failure."
- Katie Novak UDL Now
"The universal design approach goes beyond the technical requirements for the accommodation of persons with disabilities and towards their full participation in the ongoing social fabric of the world in which we all live. Universal design allows people of all abilities to experience rich media together, at the same time, in the same place, on the same channel."
- Bill Fischer - The Universal Design Framework
Ramp instead of Stairs makes it equal for all. - PAULO MERLINI architects
The Guggenheim Ramp instead of Stairs