-CloudLife- wrote:

After some brainstorming, I have an idea that I think will work reasonably well for the heavily visually impaired:
First, darken the site a little bit. Even I, a person who is not affected by vision impairment, sometimes see spots when I see the bright white of the Scratch website background. Maybe a slightly more grayish kind of tone? ST could make it work.

I also think that not all solutions given could be beneficial to all people suffering from colorblindness; hence, maybe let them select their specific type of colorblindness and have the site tailor their experience from there.

-CloudLife- wrote:

After some brainstorming, I have an idea that I think will work reasonably well for the heavily visually impaired:
First, darken the site a little bit. Even I, a person who is not affected by vision impairment, sometimes see spots when I see the bright white of the Scratch website background. Maybe a slightly more grayish kind of tone? ST could make it work.

StrixCattus wrote:

-CloudLife- wrote:

After some brainstorming, I have an idea that I think will work reasonably well for the heavily visually impaired:
First, darken the site a little bit. Even I, a person who is not affected by vision impairment, sometimes see spots when I see the bright white of the Scratch website background. Maybe a slightly more grayish kind of tone? ST could make it work.

Maybe make it an option you can customize- so a white mode, a gray mode (for people with more sensitive eyes who are affected by the white), and a night mode (for people who use the site at night/really need a very dark background)

Hey this will be great

1. A read-aloud block,
   A read aloud CODEblock,
   

when green flag clicked
(read aloud)

quacht wrote:

Hi!

I’m a member of the Scratch Team, and over the next two years, I’ll be working on a project to make Scratch more accessible to Scratchers with low-vision or blindness.

Before I start designing and building, I want to hear about your experience with Scratch and how you think Scratch accessibility can be improved–especially if you have blindness or low-vision. Your stories, thoughts, and feedback will guide the project and make sure that I’m making changes that improve Scratcher experiences, so please share on this forum!

Thanks!
Tina

sw019631 wrote:

sw019631 wrote:

when green flag clicked
forever
wait (019631) secs
switch costume to [updated! v]
end

when I start as a clone
delete this clone

when I receive [blind person v]
play sound [at a button v]

-CloudLife- wrote:

StrixCattus wrote:

-CloudLife- wrote:

After some brainstorming, I have an idea that I think will work reasonably well for the heavily visually impaired:
First, darken the site a little bit. Even I, a person who is not affected by vision impairment, sometimes see spots when I see the bright white of the Scratch website background. Maybe a slightly more grayish kind of tone? ST could make it work.

Maybe make it an option you can customize- so a white mode, a gray mode (for people with more sensitive eyes who are affected by the white), and a night mode (for people who use the site at night/really need a very dark background)

I agree! But your idea only has three outputs. I think a slider (much like the brightness sliders in Scratch Vector Editor) would do much good. Those have 100 outputs to support all kinds of people.

• 1-10 brightness colors. 1 is white and 10 is black. 2-9 are gradually darkening shades of gray. It's a simple system and there's a good chance one of them is close enough to your personal preference or level of sensitivity. This does not change anything about the colored parts of the website- the bar at the top stays the same blue, the bit at the bottom is slightly darker/bluer (or lighter if you chose a really dark option), and buttons remain the same.
  
• 1-5 top bar/button colors. The color itself does not change. 2 is what we have now. 1 is lighter, and 5 is dark but not black. (The range is more limited to keep it different from the background at all levels.) Again, you're likely to find something that suits you here.
  
• 3 palette options: Blue (identical to the website as we see it), Orange (blue is replaced with orange. Orange becomes red to differentiate from the blue. Green shifts to a more yellow green to reduce the amount of blue light. Links would look weird orange, so they shift towards a darker more purple, less saturated blue to keep the instinctive “blue link” look while also slightly making them easier on people's eyes.), and Gray (everything is monochrome gray, not much else to say here. Slight brightness shifts to keep things distinct.)
  
• Dark Mode On/Off. The default is off. Turning it on doesn't modify your choices, but it gives the site the appearance of brightness-10, top bar/button-5, and palette Orange. The palette can be changed to Gray, the bar/button to 4, and the background to 8-9 using the options, but it will override anything lighter than that, or the Blue palette. It can be turned off at any time, but it will auto-reset in twelve hours (default) or a time that you set (if it's 8 pm right now, and you plan to keep using Scratch for an hour, you can set it to 1 hour, or 2 to be on the safe side)
  

StrixCattus wrote:

-CloudLife- wrote:

After some brainstorming, I have an idea that I think will work reasonably well for the heavily visually impaired:
First, darken the site a little bit. Even I, a person who is not affected by vision impairment, sometimes see spots when I see the bright white of the Scratch website background. Maybe a slightly more grayish kind of tone? ST could make it work.

Maybe make it an option you can customize- so a white mode, a gray mode (for people with more sensitive eyes who are affected by the white), and a night mode (for people who use the site at night/really need a very dark background)

kenny2scratch wrote:

Warriorbuilds3 wrote:

Anyways, on the topic of colorblind people, I've heard there are special glasses that can help with that. I'm kinda hoping they're not expensive.

I have personally tried such glasses and found that they don't work - they merely damp down other colors, instead of strengthening the colors you have problems with. Red on traffic lights, to me, is identical to the yellow - those glasses merely made the yellow somewhat darker while keeping the red as lighter yellow. I don't recommend those glasses unless you need color vision to help you in a life-threatening situation (or equivalently urgent situation).

Cheetahgirl67 wrote:

I think it's great that Scratch is gonna be more accesible for people who can't see very well!! It's always good when a website tries to make features and stuff more accesible!! :D

Warriorbuilds3 wrote:

How about voice comments? You know, like saying something then it appears in the comment? That would be cool!

when green flag clicked
say [Awesome @-CloudLife-!]

When gf clicked
say [gf scratch for blind users! gf] for (2) secs

quacht wrote:

Hi!

I’m a member of the Scratch Team, and over the next two years, I’ll be working on a project to make Scratch more accessible to Scratchers with low-vision or blindness.

Before I start designing and building, I want to hear about your experience with Scratch and how you think Scratch accessibility can be improved–especially if you have blindness or low-vision. Your stories, thoughts, and feedback will guide the project and make sure that I’m making changes that improve Scratcher experiences, so please share on this forum!

Thanks!
Tina

quacht wrote:

Hi!

I’m a member of the Scratch Team, and over the next two years, I’ll be working on a project to make Scratch more accessible to Scratchers with low-vision or blindness.

Before I start designing and building, I want to hear about your experience with Scratch and how you think Scratch accessibility can be improved–especially if you have blindness or low-vision. Your stories, thoughts, and feedback will guide the project and make sure that I’m making changes that improve Scratcher experiences, so please share on this forum!

Thanks!
Tina