Closed amberwreed closed 7 years ago
cc'ing myself, would love to participate, too 👍
@ericronne I have a meeting set up with Atul tomorrow to answer some of the discovery questions @amberwreed wrote above. I can invite you to that or fill you in later.
@austinhernandez thx! I'm off tomorrow, so let's try to sync up on monday
Atul created this accessible color matrix for the visual design team which helps us quickly meet the 508 accessibility standards for color contrast ratio. It was originally created on Atul's own time, outside of 18F while learning Elm. The tool now has has public domain on it, brand colors, and he is happy to have it live with 18F. The only caveat is that he would like to keep it in Elm. There is a possibility of converting to JS but would love to keep it because it pushes development skills to learn a new language and would require overhead to convert.
@ericronne
@toolness
@gemfarmer opened a related issue in our Accessibility repo.
After an initial inquiry, it seems that no front-ender currently has the bandwidth to convert this from Elm. However, @toolness, @gemfarmer, and i feel that the tool will be useful for some time, regardless of programming language. Since we have a blip of time this week, we're going to jump on some design mods.
Whereas the current version works best as a reference, these mods hopefully make it better suited to the job of crafting a palette.
Cool prototype. @ericronne What are your thoughts on the editing be done in the actual grid instead of above it?
Could be interesting feature. I'm curious to see how much the enhanced editor meets that need.
The contrast indicators would update live as you play with the sliders.
Please note that i've only had time to play with the "widget" portion of this. Supporting content is needed, too. (The overall page design is not final.)
I'm going to recommend we tool around more with the interaction with the color picker UI, instead of the color picker UI, itself. Seems like lower hanging fruit.
um huh?
Opportunity to advance functionality of a very useful tool for visual design in the accessibility world.