Design Rationale / Accessibility

Design Rationale

Alright, so David is working on putting together our final design rationale document for tonight, so we should see it soon.  In the meantime we have put together a tertiary page.  The first two haven’t changed in their basic elements from last week, so I won’t post those here.

Overall I think it is looking pretty good, I believe we will darken some of the greys to improve the separation of information boxes from the background.  Still have to figure out how to do alot of it though!

Accessibility Readings

While not really qualified to comment on the specifics of the writings (I know I’ve written that a few times this semester), I can clearly see the benefit or even requirement to designing your page with accessibility in mind.  Most of these articles focused on specific elements of accessible design, but as I was reading them I could clearly see why this is not just about opening up your pages to a wider audience, but also about a requirement to not act in an alienating fashion towards those with disabilities.

The aspects of this kind of design built around screen readers (which seem to be the primary tool for computer use by the reading disabled)  highlight what is hopefully a historical trend to disallow us/them dichotomies in education and keep educational systems open to non-majority groups.

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