Raabia’s Blog

April 13 response

April 13, 2009 at 5:41 pm (Uncategorized)

Last week’s design rationale presentations were helpful.  It was exciting to see what everyone else is up to and how everyone visualizes his or her own site.  It’s great to get constructive criticism on our site ideas and interesting to see how everyone perceives fonts and colors differently.  I am looking forward to meeting with Jeremy one-on-one so I can zero in on the areas I am most confused about.  I recently met with my professor and a couple that works with Holocaust survivors and are professors at the Free University- Berlin who met our class last May.  I told them about the site and they were very excited that they will be featured on it.

As far as the readings go, I found the invisible content article helpful and I’m definitely going to try to hide the “skip to content” tip for my site.  I am wondering if the screen reader compatability feature would work for my site because I do have oral interview files I am thinking of uploading and transcribing.  I have seen the screen reader feature on the new versions of Adobe and it’s pretty fascinating to hear someone’s voice read out the information on the screen.  I found Joe Clark’s “Type and Colour” chapter to be especially intriguing with the contextualization of colourblindness and colour-vision deficiency and how to unconfuse meaningful objects for certain users.  These chapters on accessibility shed light on the fact that not everyone is able to perceive images and what we can do as web designers to mitigate many of these issues.  This is also my first exposure to what Java i, so I’m excited to learn more abou this script in class.

I am trying to figure out how to play with Flash to create the images on the homepage for my site.  Next, I want to save my logo as an image, but I have it as a Word file, so I’ll have to figure out how to do so.  I updated the rationale part of my previous post, and again any suggestions are welcome: design-rationale-04132009. (that is the Word 07) version that actually maintains my images and here is the 93-07-version-design-rationale-04132009.