Upgrade to Pro
— share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …
Speaker Deck
Features
Speaker Deck
PRO
Sign in
Sign up for free
Search
Search
MaptimeMSP: Tools - Color Accessibility
Search
Kitty Hurley
March 18, 2015
1
110
MaptimeMSP: Tools - Color Accessibility
From the March 18, 2015 Maptime MSP presentation touching on color accessibility.
Kitty Hurley
March 18, 2015
Tweet
Share
More Decks by Kitty Hurley
See All by Kitty Hurley
NACIS 2015: Starting Conversations for More Accessible Maps
geospatialem
0
460
Featured
See All Featured
Thoughts on Productivity
jonyablonski
69
4.6k
Gamification - CAS2011
davidbonilla
81
5.3k
Fontdeck: Realign not Redesign
paulrobertlloyd
84
5.5k
Stop Working from a Prison Cell
hatefulcrawdad
268
20k
The Straight Up "How To Draw Better" Workshop
denniskardys
233
140k
Rebuilding a faster, lazier Slack
samanthasiow
81
9k
The Cult of Friendly URLs
andyhume
78
6.3k
Principles of Awesome APIs and How to Build Them.
keavy
126
17k
Being A Developer After 40
akosma
91
590k
Embracing the Ebb and Flow
colly
85
4.7k
A better future with KSS
kneath
239
17k
Done Done
chrislema
184
16k
Transcript
Tools for Making Maps: Color Accessibility Kitty Hurley, GISP
“In visual perception a color is almost never see as
it really is… This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.” -Josef Albers, Interaction of Color, 1963
Colorblindness Color blindness very rarely means that you can’t see
any color at all, or that people see things in greyscale.
Colorblindness Color blindness very rarely means that you can’t see
any color at all, or that people see things in greyscale. It is actually a decreased ability to see color, or a decreased ability to tell colors apart from one another.
What does it look like?
What does it look like? (Red-Green)*
What does it look like? (Red-Green) (Red-Green)*
What does it look like? (Red-Green) (Red-Green)* (Blue-Yellow)
• Don’t rely on color coding alone. • Pay attention
to contrast. • Check with a [color] simulator. • User testing. But… what can I do?
Simu… what?
None
None
None
None
None
None
Color Accessibility Tools Color Accessibility Tools • Color Oracle: http://colororacle.org
• Color Brewer: http://colorbrewer2.org Web Safe & Contrast Tools • Tanaguru Contrast-Finder: http://contrast-finder.tanaguru.com • Colorable: http://jxnblk.com/colorable • Color Transformations: http://safecolours.rigdenage.com/colours1.html
Thank you! Comments? Questions?