Accessibility Poster

We had to create a poster, that reaches as many audiences as we could - including people with disabilities. This was to 'put around college' to inform people. Given all my research on dyslexic fonts, colours for colour blindness, and more, I decided to create a poster about College IDs.

There is a new rule in college that we have to wear our IDs around our necks. So, I decided to make a poster telling students to, and why. Despite it being an informational poster, I wanted to make it fun and cartoony so it caught the eye. So, I had the initial idea of having the college ID as the poster. This is visual, so anyone with trouble reading from a distance could make the connection with the poster and the content already, so it is good for short-sighted people and colour blind people.


This is the poster I designed in my sketchbook. If I could improve anything it would be the colouring. As this was made with disabilities in mind, I would've completed it in the college colours - blue and white - instead of plain black. Also, I would've cleaned up the text and layout - but it was only a rough draft. (Colour-ways blog, here).

I could test whether or not it is good by handing out A5 sizes and asking people for feedback, or hanging it on a wall next to feedback forms. Alternatively, I could gather people with dyslexia, or colour blindness, and conduct a focus group.