Color Accessibility Poster
Project Description:
This poster is designed to inform people about the importance of accessibility and color. The information that is present on the poster is designed to give learners a quick, yet comprehensive look at what color is, what accessibility is, and how to make sure your web or text-based media is compliant with accessibility standards. This poster is designed to be a quick or general reference for any learner to make sure their project has accessibility with color in mind while developing a project with color elements.
Purpose and Need:
The purpose of this poster is to raise awareness of color accessibility. This poster’s purpose is to provide learners with information on accessibility, provide resources, and to show how to make your digital or print media color accessible. The need for this skill is important, because without color accessibility, many individuals with a wide variety of disabilities will or cannot read, see, or interact with your project or product. This skill and information will help teachers, libraries, marketing professionals, content creators, digital engineers, and much more be aware of the importance of being accessible with color. This will also help both print and digital media as color is a large part of the digital world as well as printed media such as books, magazines, posters, etc.
Intended Audience:
The target audience for this, Color Accessibility Poster, would be any individual ages 14-80 years old on average. The age range for this information poster would be any individual designing anything for print or digital media. Any individual works with print, posters, magazines, books, or anything printed for public access and or any individual working with digital content, websites, blogs, graphics, or coding.
Instructional Framework:
For this Color Accessibility informational poster, I followed Bloom’s Taxonomy instructional framework model. It allows the learner time to comprehend and use the information they just learned in an engaging and efficient way. My goal for learners is to learn, comprehend, and retain the information, but also be able to apply the information and analyze it. All these need to come together to evaluate their work and become compliant with accessibility standards. This model allowed me to create an instructional poster that is engaging and effective for learners who are interested or need to learn about Color Accessibility.
Design:
For the design phase of my informational poster, I decided on an informational poster. I had to consider size, color, font, graphics, layout, and software to create the poster. I first decided to create the poster in Adobe Illustrator and settled on a 12 x 28 in. poster split into three sections. I designed the flow of the poster, orientation, colors, and font. I also made sure my color choices were compliant with color accessibility as well. I decided to personally make all the illustrations as vector graphics.
Develop:
For the development phase of my poster, I put everything into Adobe Illustrator. I started with one section at a time and moved down the poster as I finished each section. I pulled all my information and condensed it into bite-sized pieces to convey the most important parts of each section. After I finished the copy of the section, I added and created the illustrations. This process continued for the other two sections of the poster. After I finished designing, adding information, and creating the graphics, I had it proofread to check for spelling or inconsistencies in text or graphics.
Achieved Outcomes:
The desired outcome for this informational poster was positive. The poster presented the information in a clear and concise way, getting attention from learners. The outcome of this poster was to provide information on color accessibility by briefly going over what color and accessibility are and how they tie in the importance of color accessibility for print and digital media. The poster presented this information successfully.
Technology Integration:
The technology that was implemented and used during this instructional poster were computers, the internet, and Adobe Illustrator. The internet and computer were used for research, storage for the project, and access to the design program to create the poster. And Adobe illustrator was used to create the poster and the illustrations within the poster.
Link to Color Accessibility Poster below: