Scratch Accessibility for Low-vision and Blind Users

iamtheawesomeness

dominic305 wrote:
Idea:
I'm not colorblind, but maybe for the people who are colorblind, you could have a colorblind mode, where it shows an icon next to the blocks for each different category; for example, looks blocks will have a picture of an eye next to them, motion will have a person walking, etc.
Sort of like extensions, like pen, which have their icons on them.

Maybe there should be SPECIFIC OS DESIGN for Scratch so the user doesn't see that the colors are TOO similar

For example: for low vision users they might be like “SCRATCH IS TOO WHITE!”
So then scratch just

when I receive [a lot of a specific color v]
change [diffent colors v] effect by (25)

Last edited by iamtheawesomeness (Aug. 22, 2019 14:41:21)

kittylover339

Ooh, great idea! I would love to see this in the future!

coder2045

Maybe bring back that “Noisy blocks” checkbox from April Fool's Day 2019.

coder2045

Monniasza_spzoo wrote:

Possible colors

Motion :: #0000ff
Looks :: #8000ff
Sound :: #ff00ff
Pen :: #008000
Events :: #c05000
Control :: #ffff00
Sensing :: #00ffff
Operators :: #80ff00
Variables :: #ff8000
List :: #ff0000
Custom block :: #400080
Custom block input :: #800080

No offense, but those colors are BLINDING.

joy784

when green flag clicked
forever
if <(COLORBLINDNESS) > [0]> then
change [color v] effect by (1) until okay:: looks
end
end

JayStone

when green flag clicked

say [This is an amazing blog.] for (100) secs

StrixCattus

dominic305 wrote:
Idea:
I'm not colorblind, but maybe for the people who are colorblind, you could have a colorblind mode, where it shows an icon next to the blocks for each different category; for example, looks blocks will have a picture of an eye next to them, motion will have a person walking, etc.
Sort of like extensions, like pen, which have their icons on them.

Maybe. The thing you have to understand is that colorblindness very rarely prevents one from seeing all color. The most common kinds of colorblindness just make it difficult to differentiate between two colors- ever heard of red-green colorblindness? That's when cone cells in people's eyes that see red and green light either are tuned to more similar wavelengths, or one is missing (I think it's the red one typically) and the other tries to pick up the slack but can't because it just hasn't been designed to do that. (I might have gotten some things wrong, I am by no means an expert) So they could tell blue Motion blocks from green Operators just by color. But between green Operators and red My Blocks, they might not be able to differentiate by color alone.

Livalelin

Monniasza_spzoo wrote:

Possible colors

Motion :: #0000ff
Looks :: #8000ff
Sound :: #ff00ff
Pen :: #008000
Events :: #c05000
Control :: #ffff00
Sensing :: #00ffff
Operators :: #80ff00
Variables :: #ff8000
List :: #ff0000
Custom block :: #400080
Custom block input :: #800080

Protonomalic here, Motion and Looks look almost identical to me.

DaBoi001

Xxwolfie-chuxX wrote:
What if we make a boys vs girls coding battle!~

Please do not post about that here. Post about it somewhere else.

country_kid

it is a good idea to keep in mind that blind/low vision also use scratch(also color blind but well on the block it self has it's own name printed on top) I have no idea for this so bye?

Roberttvn

good idea

Xxwolfie-chuxX

Xxwolfie-chuxX wrote:
What if we make a boys vs girls coding battle!~

i will be nice

SavageDLX

A lot of people are complaining about the bright colors in 3.0 and are suggesting adding a dark theme.

mektebim-yigit240

when this sprite clicked
say [Woooooohhhhhoooooo!The Scratch is very good!:):):):):):lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::cool::cool::cool::cool::cool::cool:] for (15) secs

hcps-ferrelltp

https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1CAEAQE_enUS777US779&biw=1517&bih=738&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=1QtrXfjoLo-yggfItJaADA&q=ugandan+knuckles+3d+model&oq=ugandan+knuckles+3d&gs_l=img.1.0.0l2j0i24l2.14256.15989..17934…0.0..0.81.195.3……0….1..gws-wiz-img…….0i67j0i8i30.XNAakUEA0M8#imgrc=VGt0lSiFBkUPPM:

DaBoi001

Xxwolfie-chuxX wrote:
Xxwolfie-chuxX wrote:
What if we make a boys vs girls coding battle!~
i will be nice

STOP GOING OFF-TOPIC

j3r0_plays

#WeWantDarkMode

GunChleoc

Hree's my link collection on color contrast and color blindness, might come in useful.

Batgrlminion

I think this is a great idea, so maybe for color-blind people, we added pictures to help show what color it is? Just a suggestion.

when green flag clicked
if <color-blind> then
switch costume to [ pictures for color-blind v]
else
shrug
end

minecraftemery

I think this is amazing because I am partially colorblind and it might be permanent but it's not that bad anyway are you also going to make it so low hearing and deaf users can code scratch?

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