Accessibility

Can you read this?

A graphic designer, with dyslexia, has designed a font to show the difficulty of reading with dyslexia. When you try to reform the letters to make the words, and can no longer skim read, it takes ten times longer to read it - which is embarrassing. This was Daniel Britton’s intention - for people to understand the most common learning disability. This, however, to hard to test as what fonts may work for some, it won't work for others.

Disabled people have to be considered when anything is produced or published. It helps your work to reach a wider audience, shows that you care, but, mostly importantly, avoids any discrimination.

Considering this - how far do we have to take this? If you publish a poster, how can you avoid people who are short-sighted not seeing anything? Do we have to make Mount Everest wheelchair accessible? How is it even possible to create a poster or app eligible for all disabilities? I think the best way to see how people react to different, is getting some secondary research. I didn't think there'd be any, but there was.

(Link to essay - coming soon)