Blog Post
JodiSansone
4 months agoCommunity Member
Meet the Canaries Makeover
New Demo: https://jodisdemos.s3.amazonaws.com/466+Canaries/story.html
Old Demo: https://tinyurl.com/yc3gwoq7
Download: https://jodisdemos.s3.amazonaws.com/466+Meet+the+Canaries.story
New Demo: https://jodisdemos.s3.amazonaws.com/466+Canaries/story.html
Old Demo: https://tinyurl.com/yc3gwoq7
Download: https://jodisdemos.s3.amazonaws.com/466+Meet+the+Canaries.story
- JodiSansone4 months agoCommunity MemberI randomly chose a demo I did for Challenge #308--Pantone Color of the Year--Illuminating Yellow and Gray. When I looked back at it I felt sick about it. It's a hot mess! So here are some of the things I did to make it more accessible: improved the color contrast, increased the fonts, added alt text to the essential visuals, created custom focus orders, eliminated confusing background audio, added captions to the canary songs, and used key strokes as an alternative to the button navigation. I added a download so you can see some of the features that are behind the scenes. Along the way I learned a lot about canary songs and how they differ. Enjoy the canary songs! I like the Spanish Timbrado the best.
- NicholeCodri6044 months agoCommunity MemberI feel the same way when I look back at my older courses...or even when I come here and look all the amazing examples...then I look at mine and I'm like ugghhhhh! But that's what I love about looking at these...all the beautiful and creative ideas. I really like the idea of the keystrokes for accessiblity. I haven't used those before! Beautifully done! Thanks for sharing!
- ThierryEMMANUEL4 months agoCommunity MemberI don't know which one is my favorite, Jodi. I don't dare choose one of the 2 "French" ones, that would sound too nationalistic and we don't need that these days at home. Unfortunately, I've never seen or heard either of the 2. And I didn't know that canaries could live in my neighborhood.
- AshiTandon4 months agoCommunity MemberIt's really beautifully done! Incredibly tidy and easily accessible.
- AngelaThomas-9b4 months agoCommunity MemberOh! I really liked this Jodi. The Parisian Trumpeter is my favorite. :)
The list of the changes you made was really helpful to look through.
Removing the background music was the biggest change to me. I'm a musician so on the original version I had a hard time focusing in on the bird sounds instead of listening to Swan Lake. However, I did really love the playful feel that the music gave the original project! Maybe you could still have it playing on just the main slide with all the birds since now you have each bird popping up as an individual slide?