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Why is color accessibility important? by Adobe Blog

Abstract

Colors have a huge impact on the look and feel of any product. When designing for people, color becomes a strong medium to communicate and a powerful tool for accessibility. We asked Alison Murphy, a designer at Pearson’s, “What does accessibility in design mean to you?”

“There is a great thing in universal design called the ‘curb-cut effect’ — essentially, by making something accessible to a certain audience, you often improve the experience for everybody,” she answered. “Color themes that work well for a vision challenged audience will work well for everyone!”

Accessibility comes with multiple advantages, the most prominent being the uniform access and interpretation of information unaffected by the limitations of the different types of audience.

Take healthcare systems for instance. Amidst the current pandemic situation, lack of minimum contrast ratio in the colors of healthcare apps and websites may hinder communication of important information on products or services for people with low vision, color-blindness, or aging. Accessibility enables the basic color contrast, so that everyone can read the complete information provided and leverage the relevant parts.

Designers sometimes get swayed by design trends, brand palettes, or their personal love for low contrast typography that makes them choose colors that are not legible for all. No aesthetic choice should ever come at the expense of accessibility. So, how do you pick colors that fit with your desired style, while also solving for color contrast? Well, now you can with Adobe Color.

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Authors who are unaware of these ADA concerns can be assisted by using the colorfield in the XML properties to show the primary possibilities along another colorfield would allow for the associated background to be applied to meet the ADA needs. By using this property method it allows the author a Color palette to makes sure the correct hue or color variation is applied in the correct manner.  Developers / UX are always tasked with finding better ways to meet the ADA needs in a logical manner.

Have you found a better way to impact this Color Accessibility while in the hands of an author?