Colour blindness accessibility Community Group

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Colour blindness accessibility Community Group
This group was closed on 2023-04-07.
The aim of our project is to build new HTML5 specifications that can be used later by developers who wish to create more accessible websites for colour-blind people. The goal is that the specifications, that we are going to suggest, will one day become a standard of HTML5.

According to WHO, 246 million people worldwide, whilst not being blind, suffer from moderate or severe visual impairment. This includes various forms of colour blindness and other visual deficiencies such as glaucoma and cataract. Just like everyone else, colour-blind people use the Internet for professional and private purposes. However, they often encounter accessibility problems. Our challenge is to improve their situation by providing easy-to-use HTML5 specifications to developers.
To understand, define and bring solutions to colour-blind people who interact with web interfaces, we are going to conduct user tests with them based on the eye tracking technology. This will allow us to define a corpus of usability rules, according to the level of deficiency of the colour-blind persons. These rules will help us to develop solutions, validate them with other user tests and later develop HTML5 specifications that can be used in CSS.
The challenge is not only helping developers with easy-to-use HTML5 markups, but also make them aware of the situation and together build a better Internet with more accessible websites.
Feel free to join this group if you:
* are suffering from colour-blindness
* or have field experience developing accessibility solutions for the colour-blind or other visual impairment
* or have experience working with a previous submission to the W3C.
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Alexandre Plennevaux
Posted on:
May 6, 2015
Hello!
A brief status update on our progresses. We are currently in the phase of recruiting color blind folks to best grasp the accessibility issues they experience related to daltonism. For this phase, we needed communication tools. I thought it be relevant to briefly present them to you.
The “
Colour Blindness
” website has been set up to facilitate subject recruiting for the forthcoming interviews (inscriptions via an online form). It is in french for the moment, but will include an English version when the project reaches a more mature state.
You can also join our page on Facebook :
And here is the logo Remy and I designed.
We’ll get back with more information after a first batch of interviews have been made, probably around September 2015.
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Posted on:
November 27, 2014
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Colour blindness accessibility Community Group
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The aim of our project is to build new HTML5 specifications that can be used later by developers who wish to create more accessible websites for colour-blind people. The goal is that the specifications, that we are going to suggest, will one day become a standard of HTML5.
According to the WHO, 246 millions of people worldwide suffer from colour blindness. Just like everyone else, colour-blind people use the Internet for professional and private purposes. However, they often encounter problems. Our challenge is to improve their situation by providing easy-to-use HTML5 specifications to developers.
To understand, define and bring solutions to colour-blind people who interact with web interfaces, we are going to conduct user tests with them based on the eye tracking technology. This will allow us to define a corpus of usability rules, according to the level of deficiency of the colour-blind persons. These rules will help us to develop solutions, validate them with other user tests and later develop HTML5 specifications that can be used in CSS.
The challenge is not only helping developers with easy-to-use HTML5 markups, but also make them aware of the situation and together build a better Internet with more accessible websites.
Feel free to join this group if you:
* are suffering from colour-blindness
* or have field experience developing accessibility solutions for the colour-blind or other visual impairment
* or have experience working with a previous submission to the W3C.
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This is a community initiative. This group was originally proposed on 2014-11-24 by Rémy Saint Cricq. The following people supported its creation: Rémy Saint Cricq, Doug Schepers, Anna Nowak, Alexandre Plennevaux, Benoît Vanderose. W3C’s hosting of this group does not imply endorsement of the activities.
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