Intro to Descriptive Statistics
While conceptualizing and developing the workshop resources, designing for inclusion was at a pinnacle principal. That being said we determined that, pre the requirements, our resource would be best accessible to peoples with colour blindness and/or loss of hearing. These are the two disabilities that we honed on when designing this iteration of this document, in further iterations, we would hope other lack of abilities would be considered.
Colour blindness comes in many different varieties, the most common being red-green colour blindness. Red-green colour blindness is known as Deuteranopia and Protanopia, accordingly. Since Deuteranopia and Protanopia make up the largest percentage of people we have confirmed the accessibility of the site for those subtypes. With more iteration on our resource, we would like to confirm the accessibility for those with more rare colour blindness subtypes. One of the considerations we implemented was to make sure that we describe the details of the lessons in text and not exclusively in colour contrast. The times we use colour to help as visual anchors we also implement indentation and font sizing to help navigate the page. Moreover, when we use videos they are meant for an additional resource or an example. The advantage of making them additional is that the learner can find resources perfect for their disability. Finally, by using notion you can set the font and colours in the document quite easily and can allow the teacher to edit the document within seconds.
Hearing impairedness can be quite common and prevalent in many different age demographics. As our resource involves videos and meetings, there needed to be some careful designation of the resources. With all the considerations we designed we recommend teachers wanting to use this tool use Zoom.us and the YouTube videos we have selected. With Zoom there is real-time close captioning and ambient sound reduction, this helps with accessibility. As there is text in conjunction with volume control on the user side, people with hearing disabilities shouldn't have any problems with the platform. For the video-based resources, we selected specific YouTube videos with handwritten captions. As some of the captions that are auto-generated are not completely accurate, the handwritten ones are more precise in meaning. The rest of the document is based around text, for a majority of the resource. As the text is easy for people with hearing-impaired people, the majority of the resources are completely accessible for the user.