The Colour blindness accessibility Community Group has been proposed by R\u00e9my Saint Cricq:<\/p>\n
The aim of our project is to build new HTML5 specifications that can be used later by developers who wish to create more accessible websites for colour-blind people. The goal is that the specifications, that we are going to suggest, will one day become a standard of HTML5.<\/p>\n
According to the WHO, 246 millions of people worldwide suffer from colour blindness. Just like everyone else, colour-blind people use the Internet for professional and private purposes. However, they often encounter problems. Our challenge is to improve their situation by providing easy-to-use HTML5 specifications to developers.<\/p>\n
To understand, define and bring solutions to colour-blind people who interact with web interfaces, we are going to conduct user tests with them based on the eye tracking technology. This will allow us to define a corpus of usability rules, according to the level of deficiency of the colour-blind persons. These rules will help us to develop solutions, validate them with other user tests and later develop HTML5 specifications that can be used in CSS.<\/p>\n
The challenge is not only helping developers with easy-to-use HTML5 markups, but also make them aware of the situation and together build a better Internet with more accessible websites.<\/p>\n
Feel free to join this group if you:<\/p>\n
* are suffering from colour-blindness
\n* or have field experience developing accessibility solutions for the colour-blind or other visual impairment
\n* or have experience working with a previous submission to the W3C.<\/p>\n
You are invited to support the creation of this group<\/a>. Once the group has a total of five supporters, it will be launched and people can join to begin work. In order to support the group, you will need a W3C account<\/a>.<\/p>\n Once launched, the group will no longer be listed as “proposed”; it will be in the list of current groups<\/a>.<\/p>\n If you believe that there is an issue with this group that requires the attention of the W3C staff, please send us email on site-comments@w3.org<\/a><\/p>\n Thank you, The Colour blindness accessibility Community Group has been proposed by R\u00e9my Saint Cricq: The aim of our project is to build new HTML5 specifications that can be used later by developers who wish to create more accessible websites for colour-blind … Continue reading
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