{"id":242,"date":"2021-08-16T09:31:14","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T09:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/digitaltoolkit\/?p=242"},"modified":"2022-03-08T08:49:51","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T08:49:51","slug":"color-accessibility-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/digitaltoolkit\/index.php\/2021\/08\/16\/color-accessibility-check\/","title":{"rendered":"Color Accessibility Check"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Brief description of the activity\/assessment<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this activity, students are shown the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/webaim.org\/resources\/contrastchecker\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/webaim.org\/resources\/contrastchecker\/\">color contrast checker tool<\/a>. Faculty asks them to evaluate the &#8220;accessibility&#8221; of some websites or slide decks that  they have created or have been working on. Then students need to use the tool in future when they are creating material for their course, whether on slides, websites or visuals such as infographics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ways to assess student work<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Formative (ungraded)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sample explanation for students about how this activity develops their digital literacies<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We need to be aware that there are people in the world who view\/access digital materials differently than &#8220;the norm&#8221;. This color contrast checker helps students to learn how to create visual material with accessible colors to people who are color blind, but it also makes material easier to see\/read for anyone, even if they are not color blind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you know little about how color blind people view the world, check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colourblindawareness.org\/colour-blindness\/colour-blindness-experience-it\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.colourblindawareness.org\/colour-blindness\/colour-blindness-experience-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this website<\/a> to experience color blindness really quickly:<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Average preparation time for faculty <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10 minutes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Average time it takes students to complete this activity<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10 minutes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Necessary tools\/technologies<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Access to the internet and some websites or slide decks they have worked with\/on before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teach students about accessibility by using the color contrast checker to evaluate existing sites and presentations, and to use it in their own future work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,12,19],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[48],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-class-activity","category-digital-making-know-how","category-presentation"],"authors":[{"term_id":48,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"bali","display_name":"Maha Bali, Associate Professor of Practice, Center for Learning and Teaching, The American University in Cairo","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/30e9cc02488a78008e6a4f6b1115a409?s=96&d=mm&r=g","user_url":"","last_name":"","first_name":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/digitaltoolkit\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/digitaltoolkit\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/digitaltoolkit\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/digitaltoolkit\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/digitaltoolkit\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/digitaltoolkit\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":880,"href":"https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/digitaltoolkit\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/digitaltoolkit\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/digitaltoolkit\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/digitaltoolkit\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/digitaltoolkit\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/digitaltoolkit\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}