Resources for Designing for Low-Vision Users
General Resources
IBM Accessibility Handbook
The A11Y Project
Smart Cities For All Toolkits
Usability Testing
Prototyping Tools and PlugIns
Accessible Protyping with Axure
Accessible Prototyping Discussion
Physical Goggles: Low Vision Simulators
(courtesy of Dona Sauerburger)
Make your own Low-Vision Simulators
(These are the instructions that got my students started making their simulators for the project)
Podcasts/Videos/Readings
Sara Hendron’s Abler Site (Wonderful resource of readings and videos. Excited for her upcoming book!)
David Eagleman: Can We Create New Senses for Humans
99% Invisible Podcast: Episode 226: On Average
Elise Roy: When We Design for Disability, We All Benefit
A Web for Everyone
Karl Groves: Selling Accessibility
Sonic Boundary Objects
ACI
ACM Conference on Computing and Accessibility
Inspirational Projects
Wayfindr project
Alibaba Smartphone Screen
Designer Guides
Smashing Mag Accessibility Article
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines W3C
Guidelines to Accessibility Gestures
Accessibility at a Glance
Apple Accessibility Features
Low-Vision Tools
Color Contrast Analyzer Tool Great tool for analyzing color contrast ratios
Color Oracle (color blindness)
Color ID for iPhones (color blindness)
http://enchroma.com/test/instructions/ Color vision test
http://colorvisiontesting.com/ Information about color blindness, tools and references
http://www.color-blindness.com/coblis-color-blindness-simulator/: Can upload an image and test some color combinations
Digital Vision Simulators
No Coffee extension for Google Chrome
VisionSim app for iOS
Screen Readers
The demo installer of JAWS is located at http://www.freedomscientific.com/Downloads/JAWS.