Ensuring that craft patterns are accessible to crafters of diverse abilities is important not only to individuals but also to ensure our community is inclusive and supportive of all makers.
This is something we are working to improve here at Digits & Threads, and we hope this series on accessibility encourages you to join us.
Accessibility isn’t optional. Ensuring accessibility on a website isn’t catering to a minuscule subsection of the population; rather, it is now an industry standard, and for excellent reasons! It’s about making a website the best it can be for everyone, and pulling in a larger audience.
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As a companion to Five Reasons Everyone (and I Mean Everyone) Should Care About Accessibility in Knitting and Beyond, let’s examine what the Internet can be like for people with a specific visual disability. Here, I’ve used the “Colorblinding” extension for my Chrome browser to show me what the Wikipedia main page looks like for people with different kinds of colour blindness.
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Accessibility seeks to provide equally for users experiencing the world in a multitude of ways. In the context of craft patterns, a barrier is anything that prevents a crafter from accessing some or all of the information needed to complete the pattern. Therefore, the key to creating a barrier-free experience for most crafters is to ensure that there is more than one way of accessing every piece of information in a pattern or set of instructions.
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To complement her comprehensive piece on Removing Barriers in Written Craft Patterns, Nicky Jensen has prepared a template for yarn-craft designers to use when creating an accessible version of a pattern.
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