Over the years, I have learned even more about creating accessible materials and how important contrast is, and will be sharing some of the practical applications of my research below. I was fascinated by this, and chose to do more research on it for my science fair project. They explained that people tend to see better on the eye chart with colored backgrounds because the colors helped reduce eye fatigue (from the white glare of the normal eye chart) and it was easier for the eyes to focus. My interest in this topic began in 2013, when I visited a neuro-opthalmologist at a large medical center who showed me an eye chart with different colored backgrounds.
At the time I didn’t find the experience very funny at the time, but over time I have done more and more research on what colors of paper work best for text. My friends and family found this experience absolutely hilarious, and told me that it would be a great story to tell if I ever presented my research again. When I presented this research to the science fair judges, I received an unexpected surprise- three out of the five judges were colorblind! Globally, one in twelve men and one in two hundred women are colorblind, and the odds of encountering two men and one women who are colorblind in a room seemed to be one in a million. This was the first time I really investigated how important contrast is when creating accessible documents, and I was able to determine the colors of paper I preferred for my assignments. On my seventeenth birthday, I presented at a science fair affiliated with my school district about my research on how the color of paper can affect the readability of the text on the paper.
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