A Selection of Accessibility and Design References

CS 328 - Web-Apps Using Databases
Section 10 - CRN 22205 - MW 3:00-4:20
Spring 2025

Last modified: Friday, April 25, 2025

Note: if any of these references happen to follow coding or style standards other than the CS 328 coding or style standards, you are still expected to follow the CS 328 coding and style standards for CS 328 course work! 8-)

"Designing for accessiblity is not that hard" - a good article on designing for accessibility
https://teachaccess.org/initiatives/tutorial/ - the Teach Access Initiative's short tutorial on accessibility, for inclusion in web and app design/development courses
https://accessibility.blog.gov.uk/2016/06/17/colour-contrast-why-does-it-matter/ - UK Government blog post on the importance of color contrast for accessibility
https://snook.ca/technical/colour_contrast/colour.html - a tool that lets you specify a foreground and background color, and then helps you determine if they provide enough contrast
http://web-accessibility.carnegiemuseums.org/design/color/ - document from the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) that includes a nicely-varied selection of "color palette combinations that fall within the range of Section 508 compliant foreground/background color contrast ratios"
https://jfly.uni-koeln.de/color/ - Color Universal Design - How to make figures and presentations that are friendly to Colorblind people - (w/thanks to Scott Burgess for suggesting!)
Web Design and Usability - from University of Washington CSE 190 - Spring 2008