Designing Accessible E-Learning #304: Challenge | Recap
“Why do I keep hearing so much about accessibility?” That question came up in one of my recent training webinars, and it’s just one v...
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What Do Course Designers Need to Know About Building Accessible E-Learning? #304
I learned a lot from this challenge's entries. Thanks for sharing such great tips and ideas!
My experiment this week looks to emulate in a slide a few of the common accessibility utilities we find in newspapers and portals. Including changing the font size and color mode; trying to also follow the WCAG 2.0 guidelines.
The source file is not really elegant and the end result is still working a little funny, but it was interesting to have an idea of how much effort takes creating these types of features.
Demo and File / https://carmenbernadou.com/elhc/accesible-toolbar/
My experiment this week looks to emulate in a slide a few of the common accessibility utilities we find in newspapers and portals. Including changing the font size and color mode; trying to also follow the WCAG 2.0 guidelines.
The source file is not really elegant and the end result is still working a little funny, but it was interesting to have an idea of how much effort takes creating these types of features.
Demo and File / https://carmenbernadou.com/elhc/accesible-toolbar/
- I really enjoyed the design of your project, in both the light and dark mode. I didn't realize that was an accessibility function. How did you increase and decrease the size of the text when clicking the buttons?
- Thanks, Molly : )
This article reflects a little about the accessibility component of the different color modes: https://uxdesign.cc/accessibility-and-dark-ui-themes-f01001339b65
The 'change of size' function is not super elegant tbh, the text is just an object with 3 different states and I simply change the state when the user clicks the + or - buttons. This could be also achieved using numerical variables.
The hardest part was to also change the color at the same time, to avoid managing heaps of text elements simultaneously, I had to use a little JS. The file is available if you want to have a look.
- Appealing design, great accessibility toolbar esp. ability to change text size. I have been trying to figure out how to do that. Does the +/- also work on the button/ text to the right?
- Thanks Ang! The text size change is an easy win. The right panel is not changing in this example, but could be done using the same logic 😊
- Nicely done! I really like it!
