AALBORG KOMMUNE
- ACCESSIBLE DESIGN

The reason

The European Union is requiring that all digital communication be accessible for digital environments by 2025, both government and private sector.

The problem


Web accessibility allows everyone, including people with disabilities, to perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with the Internet.

The city of Aalborg in Denmark needs a guide with principles for different design building blocks that unite their current web design, and the requirements for web accessibility.

The solution

We focus on a study case 📚 where the user enters the site to find a daycare facility in the city. The task needs to be an efficient user journey and accessible for everyone 👥 . Also, we developed our solution on Mobile-first 📱 since, according to their data, 2 out of 3 visits to their site come from mobile devices.

The process

1 - USER PERSONA RESEARCH
2 - TEXT SIZE CORRECTION
Following their Design System Information, the Typeface they use is ROBOTO and the smallest size of their system is 12 pt size.
We found that the size 12 pt would not be large enough to keep accessibility across devices. For that reason, we corrected it by calculating a new smallest size of their system.
New smallest mobile phone size: Roboto 18pt Regular.

New smallest desktop size: Roboto 34pt Regular.
3 - ALL TEXT SIZES AND COLOR CONTRAST

New system sizes

Mobile:

H1 - Bold - 60pt
H2 - Bold - 36pt
H3 - Bold - 27pt
H4 - Bold - 24pt
Manchet - Regular - 36pt
Lille brodtekst - Regular - 24pt
Brodtekst - Regular - 21pt
Button tekst - Bold - 24pt
Chips og Tagging - Regular - 18pt
Desktop:

H1 - Bold - 112 pt
H2 - Bold - 68 pt
H3 - Bold - 51 pt
H4 - Bold - 48 pt
Manchet - Regular - 68pt
Lille brodtekst - Regular - 48pt
Brodtekst - Regular - 40pt
Button tekst - Bold - 48pt
Chips og Tagging - Regular - 34pt

Best color contrast

White, Yellow, and Light Pink over Green.
White, Yellow, and Light Pink over Purple.
White, Yellow, and Light Pink over Brown.
White, Yellow, Light Pink, Orange, and Cyan over Black.
White, Orange, and Cyan over Blue.

Building blocks

Then, after knowing our fundamentals about users, text, and color contrast, we work on the web components on Figma for the study case "Find a Daycare Facility" ensuring accessible design.

Final Prototype

Finally, the following video shows the mobile through Figma prototype for the study case and how the user successfully completes the searching task.

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