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Give Joe Some Dough
Donate to Joe Clark’s Micropatronage We interrupt our regularly scheduled three part series on Designing for Dyslexics to bring you this public service announcement:
Love him or hate him, Joe Clark needs your dough… or money, moolah, cash, clams, or whatever name you give your currency. Joe is looking for day-to-day survival money while he raises $7 million (Canadian) to fund the Open & Closed Project. This is an accessibility research project aimed at developing accessible media standards in four areas:
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Announcing GrayBit v1.0
Converted Contrast is one of those challenges accessible web developers must contend with, else risk leaving users behind. The type of user being left behind in this case, specifically, would be one with color-blindness or a related vision disability. To the unchallenged web user a colored site will indeed be colored. The reds will be red, the greens, green. To the color-blind user, though, those same reds will be a medium gray and, this is where the problem lies, so, too, will the greens. Obviously medium gray on medium gray leaves no contrast, and for some users this is going to be a big problem.
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