A Website Colour Design Tool for Quickly Picking Accessibility Colours

What is it about?

Many websites demonstrate inaccessible colour choices and numerous online colour palette design tools only focus on assisting designers with either the finding the right aesthetics for a website or accessible colour pairs. We recruited web designers to develop an Accessible Colour Evaluator or ACE (daprlab.com/ace) and show that it is possible to provide designers with a tool to quickly build a colour palette, while ensuring colours are accessible for people with visual impairments (e.g., low vision and colourblindness).

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Why is it important?

The number of people who require a minimum level of contrast for text on a website is very large. For example, 246 million people in the world have low vision and 2.7 million in the UK have colourblindness (this number increases if we consider the world population). For these people it means that it can be difficult to read low-contrast text or text of certain colours against a particular coloured background. This is unfair on the individual who is missing out on content and it also has various repercussion such as potential loss of sales for businesses due to inaccessible content.