Upgrade to Pro
— share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …
Speaker Deck
Features
Speaker Deck
PRO
Sign in
Sign up for free
Search
Search
MaptimeMSP: Tools - Color Accessibility
Search
Kitty Hurley
March 18, 2015
1
120
MaptimeMSP: Tools - Color Accessibility
From the March 18, 2015 Maptime MSP presentation touching on color accessibility.
Kitty Hurley
March 18, 2015
Tweet
Share
More Decks by Kitty Hurley
See All by Kitty Hurley
NACIS 2015: Starting Conversations for More Accessible Maps
geospatialem
0
470
Featured
See All Featured
Chrome DevTools: State of the Union 2024 - Debugging React & Beyond
addyosmani
7
810
Fireside Chat
paigeccino
39
3.6k
The Illustrated Children's Guide to Kubernetes
chrisshort
48
50k
Code Reviewing Like a Champion
maltzj
525
40k
Practical Orchestrator
shlominoach
190
11k
Large-scale JavaScript Application Architecture
addyosmani
512
110k
Dealing with People You Can't Stand - Big Design 2015
cassininazir
367
26k
"I'm Feeling Lucky" - Building Great Search Experiences for Today's Users (#IAC19)
danielanewman
229
22k
Testing 201, or: Great Expectations
jmmastey
45
7.6k
Typedesign – Prime Four
hannesfritz
42
2.8k
Side Projects
sachag
455
43k
Mobile First: as difficult as doing things right
swwweet
223
9.9k
Transcript
Tools for Making Maps: Color Accessibility Kitty Hurley, GISP
“In visual perception a color is almost never see as
it really is… This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.” -Josef Albers, Interaction of Color, 1963
Colorblindness Color blindness very rarely means that you can’t see
any color at all, or that people see things in greyscale.
Colorblindness Color blindness very rarely means that you can’t see
any color at all, or that people see things in greyscale. It is actually a decreased ability to see color, or a decreased ability to tell colors apart from one another.
What does it look like?
What does it look like? (Red-Green)*
What does it look like? (Red-Green) (Red-Green)*
What does it look like? (Red-Green) (Red-Green)* (Blue-Yellow)
• Don’t rely on color coding alone. • Pay attention
to contrast. • Check with a [color] simulator. • User testing. But… what can I do?
Simu… what?
None
None
None
None
None
None
Color Accessibility Tools Color Accessibility Tools • Color Oracle: http://colororacle.org
• Color Brewer: http://colorbrewer2.org Web Safe & Contrast Tools • Tanaguru Contrast-Finder: http://contrast-finder.tanaguru.com • Colorable: http://jxnblk.com/colorable • Color Transformations: http://safecolours.rigdenage.com/colours1.html
Thank you! Comments? Questions?