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When we decided to design our interactive learning activities, we picked two defining factors to be prevalent throughout: colour blindness and English language learning (ELL).
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When designing our Word Press page, we wanted to use a colour-blind friendly palette. Colour blindness is deficiency in the eye that affects approximately 8% of males and 0.5% of females (Colour Blind Awareness, n.d.). The most common type of colour blindness is a red-green colour blindness where it is difficult to distinguish between red and green (National Eye Institute, n.d.). With this in mind, we focused our colour scheme to be a more colour blind friendly palette. We limited our use of red and green as they can be seen as brown (Shaffer, 2016).
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As we were writing the material to the modules, we kept in mind that there may be some students who have English as their second language. We wanted to have the information we are conveying to be as simple yet informative and accessible as possible. We avoided the use of jargons to not only support ELL, but everyone who is new to the topic of electronic health records. Furthermore, abbreviations are defined in every page before it is used so ELLs can understand the material better.
We hope that those who are colour blind and those who have English as a second language can access our modules and learn as effectively as others.