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Re: Global Accessibliity Awareness Day - small things regular coders or webpage dsigners could do?

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From: November Samnee
Date: Apr 18, 2013 8:42AM

Though I haven't tried it, there is the NoCoffee vision simulator for
Chrome, discussed here: http://accessgarage.wordpress.com/2013/02/09/458/

November


On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Birkir R. Gunnarsson <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Hey gang
>
> I want to do a little promotion of Global Accessibility Awareness Day
> GAAD in Iceland on May 9th (though I won´t be there).
> I have connections to quite a few software and web development companies.
> I was thinking about what I could make them do for the day, or for a
> few hours, that has to do with accessibility, and will hopefully be an
> eye opener in a good way.
> One obvious thing is to ask everyone to work without their mouse for
> the day, or as long as they can.
> Another, I am wondering if it is easy and simple to turn color
> contrast on screens down so low as to make the user color blind, or if
> there is a plug-in that will provide these effects.
>
> Any other ideas would be welcome (and if there is already a collection
> of ideas out there, please point me to it).
> Cheers
> -B
> > > >