Accessibility Simulations: In-Class Exercise (12 January 2005)
If you have headphones with you, complete the tasks on WebAIM's Screen Simulator. If you don't have headphones, do this exercise outside of class; it's a valuable experience.
Go to the Cognitive Simulator on the same site, and complete those tasks as well.
On the Vischeck site, provide a URL to a web page you've created, and see how it would appear to a person with color blindness. Try it with some of the web pages you frequent most often.
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