Accessibility Guidelines
This guide's suggestions for printed text, image, and color, have been provided with accessibility in mind. Although there are no absolute answers or guidelines for accessibility that will guarantee equal access for everyone, by making these considerations, you will ensure your poster is viewable to as wide an audience as possible.
If you are providing a digital copy of your poster, ensure it meets the University's guidelines for digital accessibility.
UChicago Branding Assets
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UChicago Branding AssetsThe University’s Brand Identity Guidelines provide guidance on branding, as well as proper usage of the University’s logos, colors, fonts, editorial style, video, and photography style. Each guideline is set with design accessibility in mind.
Download University brand assets, such as logos, the Shield, the Phoenix, video templates, and accessible color libraries.
Additional Design Accessibility Resources
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Mismatch
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ISBN: 9780262349635How inclusive methods can build elegant design solutions that work for all. Sometimes designed objects reject their users...Something as simple as color choices can render a product unusable for millions. These mismatches are the building blocks of exclusion. In Mismatch, Kat Holmes describes how design can lead to exclusion, and how design can also remedy exclusion. Inclusive design methods--designing objects with rather than for excluded users--can create elegant solutions that work well and benefit all. -
Inclusive design for a digital world : designing with accessibility in mind
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ISBN: 9781484250167Publication Date: 2019What is inclusive design? It is simple. It means that your product has been created with the intention of being accessible to as many different users as possible.
Though this book discusses digital design accessibility, its principles are broadly applicable to the way we present information to viewers in a variety of formats.
