Previous Sessions:
Town Hall Pitch: pdf pptx
10/10/23 Introduction and Code of Conduct: pdf pptx
14/11/23 Accessibility in Communicating Science: pdf pptx [recording (coming soon) ] [transcript (coming soon) ]
Resources:
Accessibility in communicating science:
• Yale Library Poster Guide
• Guidelines for Accessible Posters, Gilson & Kitchin
• Newcastle University Academic Poster Guide (Has examples of bad/good poster design)
• The Scientist’s Guide to Poster Design (Specifically for STEM posters)
• Coloring for Colourblindness (Good palettes for colourblindness & testing how palettes look in different types of colourblindness)
• Colour Contrast Analyser (Downloadable tool which assigns a contrast number for two hex codes)
• WebAim Contrast Checker (Online tool which assigns a contrast ratio for two hex codes)
• The Color Palette Studio: Color Contrast Checker (Online tool which assigns a contrast ratio for two hex codes for text/background both ways round)
• Color Oracle (Downloadtable tool which simulates colourblindness on your screen for easy design checking)
• Coblis —
Color Blindness Simulator (Upload figures and files to see them through different colourblindness)
• Accessible color palette builder (Input your palette hex codes, it will tell you which combinations are good for text/background)
• Color Safe (Input your background colour, it will give you some text colour options with high enough contrast ratio)
• Google Fonts: Introducing accessibility in typography (Article on what makes a font accessible)
• OpenDyslexic (Downloadable font designed for dyslexia)
LGBTQIA+:
• The Nonbinary Fraction: Looking Towards the Future of Gender Equity in Astronomy
• 500 Queer Scientists
Other Equiteas:
Equitea initiatives have already been established at other universities. They also have good resources on their pages, take a look!
University of Michigan
University of Warwick
Queen’s University Belfast