Color and Accessibility
Posted on May 1, 2008 by Servant | News| Tags: accessibility, color wheel, colorblind
How do you design a church web site for good accessibility? There are a number of issues that come up, such as readers for the blind. Yet, the church should be one place where we take these things into consideration, so that the very least (Mat 25:40) can use the web site.
One issue is color. For those with color blindness, a beautiful color scheme may really be unreadable. This surprisingly affects a significant percentage of adults – i.e. over 10 million adult males in the US. However, those of us who don’t suffer from color blindness don’t recognize it. There is a web site that helps you visualize this effect. Check out the Color Accessibility wheel by Giacomo Mazzocato:
TIP: To use the wheel, select a background color, then select foreground and move around the wheel to see the effect. Some color combinations essentially look the same to a person with color blindness, and the wheel shows this clearly.