May 12, 2022

Accessibility in Design: Checking for Colour Contrast

About this video

Description

How can you know what colours and contrast are appropriate? How can you ensure that people with vision disabilities can read your documents? This webinar will review, and demonstrate the use of, a variety of colour contrast checkers, including those available online, plugins, and in most mainstream applications such as Microsoft, InDesign and PDFs. Learn how to make your documents more accessible by ensuring there is good colour contrast.

Topics include:

Colour blindness and how colours appear on-screen

How to ensure your text colour works with assistive technology

Starting a project with an accessible colour pallet

Recommended online and plugin resources for colour contrast checking

Screen enhancement apps and how they handle colour

Accessibility Services Canada is a Silver Sponsor and offers RGD members a 15% discount on all live, group and on-demand and training. See more accessibility training opportunities: https://AccessibilityCanada.ca/

About Barbara Moody

Barbara has been the document accessibility expert and trainer with Accessibility Services Canada since 2014. Barbara is a subject expert in all facets of document production and has the designation of Certified Print Production Practitioner (C.P.P.P).