Hi everyone, I chose to use the Hinterland Who’s Who – Moose resource.

My Vision Impairment Experience

This was the first time that I used the No-Coffee Firefox extension and it was incredible to ‘see’ through a different set of eyes. Navigating through the various degrees of eye blur, contrast loss, glare, ghosting, and cloudiness brought the reality of accessibility to my heart and mind.

Of particular interest to me was how very little blur and cloudiness created a great amount of challenge in perceiving and understanding the Hinterland webpage. Going through this experience reminded me of the importance of web-design and how Hinterland’s use of a grey background rather than a white background added to the perceived blurriness that I experienced.

This activity reminded me of the importance of including audio and visual resources within any websites/blogs that I create. If someone cannot read my webpage, then they should at least be able to navigate towards audio resources as an alternative.

One significant problem I identified was that the only reason that I was able to identify where the YouTube video was on the Hinterland page was because of the bright red button which emerged. If this bright red symbol did not appear, I would have no idea that there was a video on the webpage.

I intend to implement larger fonts with bright-white backgrounds in order to create clear reading contrast. I also want to ensure that where I am able to, I will begin including audio/visual resources where applicable on my own writing website.

Carson 🙂