Course DesignAccessibility


Accessibility and Design - Why Color Matters

When you finally completed grad school and began your teaching career, you may have envisioned lecturing before a throng of students, and the satisfaction you would feel as you witness them grow in their understanding and discover their most rewarding careers. However, you may not have anticipated how much time you'd spend creating and curating instructional materials and compiling them into the nth PowerPoint presentation, agonizing over visuals, fonts, colors, and diagrams and hoping students appreciate the effort. While you may not cater to every student's aesthetic palate with your design choices, you can afford color accessibility for students with visual impairments. You may find that all students benefit from the steps you take to improve accessibility in your visual design

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