- Are there any digital accessibility practices that you often see being missed? Are there any that you know YOU often miss?
The biggest digital accessibility practices that are often missed, is making videos more accessible. In loud classrooms, and with distracting sounds and images, information can often be missed, and there are many different ways to make your videos more accessible. Adding captions is massive in assisting all types of learners, especially those who are hard of hearing and captions are also just useful for the reasons I stated earlier.
- Are there any digital accessibility practices that surprised you? Why?
The biggest surprise to me was the part about colour. I have never considered how colour is perceived diffrently. Whether its colour blindness or something else, colours are used to enhance videos, websites and videogames. Making sure colours aren’t too harsh, saturated or bright, is a simple way to make things that much more accessible.
This is an image I took over summer break. Even while editing the photo I was getting a headache while looking at the image. – Finlay Jessop
Sup Shark Finn,
I really enjoyed reading this weekly reflection post on accessibility tech! I agree with all of the points you’ve made. I also was really shocked by the importance of colour and contrast. One thing you could potentially work on would be the current contrast errors on your blog. I found a few when I put your blog through the WAVE accessibility tool. All in all, great blog Finn. Keep it up!