Cool Web Tools
Here are some cool and useful resources to help ensure your website looks great and is user-friendly for everyone. Each link will open in a new window so you don't have to leave this site.
Colors
- Read this article about color meanings, symbolism, and which colors go together.
- Use this HTML Color Picker to find the colors you want and their hex codes (the alphanumeric codes used in websites).
- Visit Snook.ca, where you can enter the 6-digit hex codes for the colors you want to use to make sure your background color and text color contrast enough for easy reading by your site visitors.
- Visit Juicy Studio's Luminosity Colour Contrast Ratio Analyser, another good color contrast checker.
Images
- Visit GRSites.com, where you can create all kinds of backgrounds, image buttons, logos and more.
Web 2.0 Info
Accessibility Tips
Question: What's the best way to make sure your videos are enjoyable for everyone?Answer: Use captioning and verbal description in the video wherever possible, allowing both deaf users and blind users to access the video's content. If it's not possible to insert captioning and verbal description into the video, then create a separate page with a textual description of the audio and visual content. As well as deaf or blind users, this separate text page will also be helpful to users of text-only web browsers and users who don't have access to a media player.
