accessibility-design

Tonight I was studying for my accessibility professional certification. The numbers tell the story. When I teach a11y, I say the lowest hanging fruit when it comes to making the biggest impact in a11y is color contrast. Why? 300 million people globally have color vision deficiency. Compare this to the 3% of people with epilepsy who have photosensitive epilepsy.  That is approx. 1.5 million people. UX strategy for reducing risk of seizure is to limit all flashing media & give a pause/stop button for any autoplay video content. UX strategy for low vision/colorblindess is to ensure proper color contrast ratio in text. 

Your takeaway: When starting any UX/UI project, run your color hex codes through a color contrast checker and be the authority for what color text can go on what color background.