I've been working on a strategic project (AODA initiative) that will help disabled people work with Canadian websites. Canada has caught up with the rest of the first world and accessibility is a big focus these days - the legislation is aimed at making the world fairer for this very-likely frustrated group. Even as my "normal" vision has taken a slight hit as I get older, some websites are a pain to read.
There are so many issues I didn't see - did you know that dyslexic people have trouble reading "justified" typeset? (The text lines up with the left and the right margins)
I always preferred this typeset because it looked so "professional". Well, it turns out it's exclusive too. So now I'm left-justifying everything. Seems only fair, after all it's a simple change to make and I can read either way.
There are many types of Dyslexia, and I'm still learning, but here are a couple examples of "the Rivers Effect" that I took from Google Images. The audits that will be done on our public-facing internet websites will uncover many of these kinds of issues - and it's not simple. I'll keep you posted.
Because of a potential chromatic factor for dyslexia-type symptoms, the ability of someone to see an identical diameter Blue on Black Dyop™ rotation at a further distance (or detect rotation of a smaller diameter Blue on Black Dyop™) versus a Green on White Dyop™ rotation MAY indicate the presence of those aberrant chromatic visual symptoms.
ReplyDeleteOur free on-line color screening test at http://www.dyop.org/color.htm
with the specific test at http://www.dyop.org/documents/ColorScreening.html
has proven definitive as a screening test for those individual with dyslexia type symptoms.