Accessibility Design- Pearson
As designers, we have the power and responsibility to make sure that everyone has access to what we create regardless of ability, context, or situation. The great thing about making our work accessible is that it brings a better experience to everyone. As a product designer for Pearson Education products, It is essential all the design meet Pearson accessibility guidelines..
Process
Create an accessibility check list, and always include this list in the design approval process, this list will include:
  • Strong color contrast
  • Font size check
  • Visual focus indication for keyboard focus.
  • Avoid using color along for critical information
  • Navigate through keyboard
  • Provide alt text for Images
Color contrast
The Goal People who have difficulty seeing may need the background and foreground colors of text and key images to have a high contrast.
The Solution Using contract checker to make sure color combination pass the mininum contrast ratio
Color blind
The Goal Around 1 in 12 boys and men, and 1 in 200 girls and women, suffer from some form of colorblindness—that’s 5% of all users. The most common forms of colorblindness mean that affected people may find it hard to distinguish between:
green and orange, red and green, blue and purple, red and brown, blue and green
The Challenge As designing for education app. Red and green are often used for correct and incorrect answer. and it is troublesome to meet the accessibility requirements.
The Solution Support color choices with patterns, icons, and text labels. In this example , I add icon as visual aid to help color blind users to differentiate between two.
use of color
The Problem It is not efficient to use red font to indicate the “below average” number as the colorblind user will have difficult time to tell the differicences. The design need to be understandable without color
The Solution Support color choices with patterns, icons, and text labels. In this example , I add icon as visual aid to help color blind users to differenciate between two.
keyboard navigation
The Problem Users with impaired mobility or motor function may struggle to use a mouse or other conventional pointing device. For these users, being able to move between fields, links, and buttons within a webpage or user interface by using the tab and arrow keys can make the difference between a page being usable and unusable.
The Solution Design efficient focus state for all interactive UI components.

Navigate through the design using only keyboard, to see if there’s any problems.

When working with developers, specify and test this keyboard functionality. Other considerations include making sure that using the tab key cycles through page elements in the correct order.
form accessibility
The Goal A label for a form control helps everyone better understand its purpose. it needs to be provided within the code to support other forms of presentation and interaction, such as for screen reader and speech input users.
The Solution Provide label and information text for each inputs. The information text should be positioned close to the inputs to help user understand its function.
Provide label and information for each inputs (Onboarding)
Provide label and information for each inputs (Check Out)