Design for Accessibility
A research project on an aspect of accessibility and develop a guide on how to approach designing for accessibility in regards to 1 of the topics provided: Visual: Blindness, low vision, color blindness Hearing: Deaf and hard of hearing Motor: Inability to use a mouse, slow response time, limited motor control Cognitive: Learning disabilities, distractibility, inability to focus on large amount of information. What you will create: A resource others can use to apply your design research. Have these sections: Overview or Introduction: What is the issue at hand? Why is it an issue? How can design help? High level description of the solutions to come. Examples of typical issues: Provide some examples of what issues could present themselves. An example of this is if a person is red green color blind they may have trouble identifying continue or stop buttons if red and green are used. Provide Solutions: In the example above you might also incorporate words or shapes on the buttons. Tools: Provide a list of tools that can be used to overcome the issues. In some cases these might be software or hardware based tools that can solve a problem. They might also be Heuristics or Rules of Thumb that will help guide designers.
