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Tag Archives: color contrast
See It: A CCTV right on your iPhone.
People with low vision often use a device called a CCTV. It magnifies the text of a book or other print document. You can also invert and change colors to create a reading experience that is the most comfortable for your vision. CCTV’s are HUGE. Newer ones are more compact, but they are still not [...]
Accessibility, Assistive Technology
Also tagged blind, iPad, iPhone, iphone app, low vision, magnification, See It, Studio Bebop
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Accessibility in Technical Communication
I am venturing into the field of technical communication via a new internship. I will explore how accessibility is applied to this field so you’ll probably find posts about it on the blog from time to time. Technical communication and information/library science (my degree) share similar goals: to provide information in the most user friendly [...]
Google Adds Some Important Accessibility Features
It would have been better to integrate accessiblity from the get go, but Google has made some strides in terms of accessibility. They also acknowledge that it is a work in progress. Here’s the full article: http://www.webpronews.com/google-continues-to-improve-accessibility-2011-09 In this article, you’ll find links to keyboard shortcuts in Google Calendar and Google Docs that the blind [...]
How E-Textbooks Can Benefit People with Disabilities
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) recently introduced a Kindle textbook purchase program. Since the Kindle platform is available on many different devices that include accessibility features, this is a huge help for people who are blind or partially sighted. I’ve already praised the iPad for its VoiceOver, font adjustments and color contrast features. The Kindle itself includes [...]
Accessibility, Assistive Technology
Also tagged accessible format, Amazon, backpack, blind, bookbag, braille, e-book, e-reader, font size, iPad, Kindle, kindle apps, mac, partially sighted, pc, rollable backpack, text to speech, textbook, voiceover
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Can Your Website Handle Going Gray?
One of the basic web accessibility testing criteria is to check for color contrast and grayscale. Graybit.com is an excellent grayscale tool used to convert websites into shades of gray to make sure they’re still readable. All you have to do is type the url you want to check into the text field, and click [...]
Accessibility, Web Accessibility
Also tagged accesscolor, blind, color blind, graybit, grayscale
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