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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Thu, Apr 18 2013 8:38AM
Subject: Global Accessibliity Awareness Day - small things regular coders or webpage dsigners could do?
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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

From: November Samnee
Date: Thu, Apr 18 2013 8:42AM
Subject: Re: Global Accessibliity Awareness Day - small things regular coders or webpage dsigners could do?
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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 <
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> 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
> > > >

From: GF Mueden
Date: Thu, Apr 18 2013 2:02PM
Subject: Re: Global Accessibliity Awareness Day - small things regular coders or webpage dsigners could do?
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One small thing designers can do is to provide feedback on every site to
make ir easy to report inaccessibility to the webmaster and in the case
of software, tp the managers.
George


On 4/18/2013 10:38 AM, Birkir R. Gunnarsson 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
> > > >

From: Scott González
Date: Thu, Apr 18 2013 2:12PM
Subject: Re: Global Accessibliity Awareness Day - small things regular coders or webpage dsigners could do?
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On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Birkir R. Gunnarsson <
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> 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.


In OS X, this is controlled via System Preferences -> Universal Access ->
Seeing. In the Display section, there is a checkbox for "use grayscale"
which will eliminate all colors. You can also control contract and invert
colors.

In Windows, this is controlled via Control Panel -> Accessibility Options
-> Display. There is a checkbox for "Use High Contrast" there are also
settings to control how high contrast mode works.

From: Jonathan Metz
Date: Fri, Apr 19 2013 1:26PM
Subject: Re: Global Accessibliity Awareness Day - small things regular coders or webpage dsigners could do?
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Another option is to use color oracle (http://www.colororacle.org) to simulate what it's like to have . It's a free simulator for linux, mac and windows.


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On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Birkir R. Gunnarsson <
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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.


In OS X, this is controlled via System Preferences -> Universal Access ->
Seeing. In the Display section, there is a checkbox for "use grayscale"
which will eliminate all colors. You can also control contract and invert
colors.

In Windows, this is controlled via Control Panel -> Accessibility Options
-> Display. There is a checkbox for "Use High Contrast" there are also
settings to control how high contrast mode works.