My StoryMap is here. While it took me a long time to get the hang of StoryMaps, taking me three hours to finish making mine, it is overall quite intuitive when one already understand the sort of thing it is to be used for. This is one of its benefits, and another that I would provide is that it is extremely versatile at what one can do to bring different elements together. Finally, I think that it is extremely easy to make everything flow together in the way that it should. With other tools, that sort of thing can get kind of awkward, but it felt like no such problem exists for StoryMaps. One drawback of the tool is that it felt intuitive at first to me, and took me a little bit to get the hang of what I was doing. Secondly, while it’s built in structure to the StoryMap being made helps everything flow together, it presents a limit to how one can make their connections: they must be linear. The main accessibility c0ncern with this tool seems to be that it needs alt-text on different media. My StoryMap was mostly text based, perhaps others are different, and so it seems like in the places where there are images, it is necessary to make sure that it is clear to everyone what they are images of. Colors are also important of course, and I was surprised when looking at the City of Irvine Great Park Framework Plan example that the text and its background had enough contrast but apparently they do. What seems in general to be important is to be mindful so as to not make things boring, confusing, or crowded. Finally, I think I would feel okay helping somebody else use this tool. It took a little bit for me to get the hang of it, but once I did, I did not have any problems.

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