Improve readability of text about mimic-website HOT 6 CLOSED

I recommend focusing on content and getting it up first. Style can be tweaked as we go along.

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@kpierceHST no rush, but when you have time, please could you provide some pointers on how we can make the text more accessible/readable?

• Font: Should we change the font? If so, do you have any recommendations?
• Size of text: Is the text large enough?
• Colour of text: Should the colour of the text change?
• Colour of background: Should the colour of the background change?

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There are some guidelines at http://ux.mit.edu/accessibility/guidelines . Note also that MIT's IST offers usability assessments: see http://ux.mit.edu/usability . Not today, I know, but it might be useful to invite their help.

For me, it's probably most of the above. I think the main issue is font-weight in combination with font-color. Weight seems to be 300 for menu items. 500 would be better. Color is #353B44, I think. Also the buglike icons at the left on the menu items are distracting and make it harder to focus on the text. Sans-serif font, especially a compact sans-serif, is harder to read than a serif font (unless you're on an old green CRT monitor...).

Right now, text weight at http://mimic.physionet.org/help/ is different (less than, less legible) than at http://mimic.physionet.org/about/mimic/ .

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I met someone from MIT Sloan at the recent MIT Digital Health Conference who specialises in accessibility of digital content.

He is involved with: http://www.pstarfish.org/. I have invited him to this weekend's hackday so will ask for his input...

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Two or three weeks ago we met up with the @MIT-LCP/mit_accessibility_and_usability group (including @RichCaloggero). We are hoping that the team will be able to suggest improvements via GitHub issues (and possibly even contribute fixes directly to the repository).

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Good move!

Roger

Roger G. Mark, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Health Sciences and Technology
and of Electrical Engineering
Room E25-505
MIT
Cambridge, MA 02139
Tel 617-253-7818
Fax 617-258-7859

On 4/25/2016 4:34 PM, Tom Pollard wrote:

Two or three weeks ago we met up with the
@MIT-LCP/mit_accessibility_and_usability
https://github.com/orgs/MIT-LCP/teams/mit_accessibility_and_usability group
(including @RichCaloggero https://github.com/RichCaloggero). We are
hoping that the team will be able to suggest improvements via GitHub
issues (and possibly even contribute fixes directly to the repository).

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