Randoma11y - Accessible color combinations

Designing for colorblindness - The Verge

In design, both in the digital and physical worlds, color should never be the sole indicator of meaning. A simple test: if your work was converted to grayscale, would it still be usable?

Andy describes life online with deuteranopia and dispenses some practical advice for designers:

If there’s any uncertainty, adding labels, icons, or textures to each meaningful color of your design will make it accessible to many more people, regardless of their ability to perceive color.

Top 5 things to review in an Accessible Design Review - Hassell Inclusion

Considering how much accessibility work happens “under the hood”, it’s interesting that all five of these considerations are visibly testable.

1. Think about accessible copy
2. Don’t forget about the focus indicator
3. Check your colour contrast
4. Don’t just use colour to convey meaning
5. Design in anticipation of text resizing

5 Keys to Accessible Web Typography | Better Web Type

Some excellent explanations for these five pieces of sensible typography advice:

1. Set your base font size in relative units
2. Check the colour of your type and only then its contrast
3. Use highly legible fonts
4. Shape your paragraphs well
5. Correctly use the heading levels

Accessible Color Generator – Learn UI Design

This looks like a really useful tool for generating accessibile colour combinations from a starting colour.

Useful accessibility resources

A whoooole bunch of links about inclusive design, gathered together from a presentation.