Projects
CC39 - Determine Web Accessibility options for a citizen science website
Project start and end dates:
2022-07-27 to 2022-10-31
Research and document web accessibility standards that can apply to the citizen scientists web application we are building.
Use your skills and creativity in all aspects of the design the process to identify relevant web accessibility standards, determine which ones could/should apply to the two sections of our prototype (citizen scientist and trusted authority portal), and assess our current HTML to identify gaps/errors.
The students reviewed our citizen science website prototype to determine overall user experience accessibility assessment and design. The students were also tasked to recommend possible web accessibility standards. They ran tools such as Lighthouse to fix accessibility page by page based on WCAG standards and shared recommendations for updates on the website.
They were always pleasant, professional, keen to understand our project goals and objectives, and willing to go the extra mile to help achieve them. Overall, the team’s result was of real value and will be put to use as we continue to design our prototype.
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