One thing I’ve learned about accessibility is how I should pay more attention to color contrast than I otherwise might. While if I saw a website of mine and realized it was hard to make out text or buttons, I would know to change it, seeing the examples in the video and hearing that the ability to see contrast deteriorates for most people over time made me realize that I should exercise an abundance of caution in how much contrast I use. An example of a technical accessibility feature is having ways other than motion to achieve functionality for every functional element of a page. An example of an accessibility feature that must be made in consideration of the creation of web content is makingĀ  information conveyed through images and color also be conveyed through text. An example of a feature I had not before considered as part of accessibility is the making sure that any content that automatically scrolls has a way for pausing or stopping that scrolling. I had two contrast errors show up when I ran a test of my website’s homepage through the WAVE tool. The first was between my page title text and my background image that I fixed by changing the image. However I could not figure out where the second was. Turning off “styles” let me see that it seemed to be something that said “scroll down to content,” but I could not find this on the regular site, nor how to fix it at all.

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