{"id":3506,"date":"2014-07-08T12:23:03","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T11:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/?p=3506"},"modified":"2014-07-08T12:23:03","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T11:23:03","slug":"accessibility-and-colour-blindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/2014\/07\/accessibility-and-colour-blindness\/","title":{"rendered":"Accessibility and colour blindness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Marshall presented a talk at the <a href=\"https:\/\/weblearn.ox.ac.uk\/info\/wlug\" target=\"_blank\">WebLearn User Group<\/a> meeting on 7 July 2014 about writing accessible webpages. He showed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=42GzV-DR2NI\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube video<\/a> which demonstrates how a screen reader reads out the content, links and navigation on a Sakai webpage to a person with visual impairment.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Web_accessibility\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a> &#8220;Web accessibility refers to the inclusive practice of removing barriers that prevent access to websites by people with disabilities&#8221;. The Special Education Needs and Disability (SENDA) Act of 2001 requires web designers to &#8216;make reasonable provisions&#8217; to ensure that people with disabilities have the same opportunities as those who are not disabled. The Act applies also to WebLearn site owners and users.<\/p>\n<p>Another important aspect to be aware of is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colour_blindness\" target=\"_blank\">colour blindness<\/a>, which affects a significant proportion of the population. This interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/a-colourblind-guide-to-colourful-presentations\/\" target=\"_blank\">blog post by the Oxford Protein\u00a0Informatics Group<\/a> includes some fun visual tests to experience things as a colour blind person would see them. The post also provides guidelines on how to design colourblind-friendly presentations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:weblearn@it.ox.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Contact the WebLearn team<\/a> if you would like hard copies of the following <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jisctechdis.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">JISC Tech-Dis<\/a> books about accessibility and particular electronic formats:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Access all areas: disability, technology and learning<\/li>\n<li>Making electronic documents more readable<\/li>\n<li>Writing accessible electronic documents with Microsoft Word<\/li>\n<li>Creating accessible presentations<\/li>\n<li>Making the most of PDFs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Marshall presented a talk at the WebLearn User Group meeting on 7 July 2014 about writing accessible webpages. He showed a YouTube video which demonstrates how a screen reader reads out the content, links and navigation on a Sakai &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/2014\/07\/accessibility-and-colour-blindness\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblearn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3506"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3508,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506\/revisions\/3508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}