Marcelo Paiva

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Drawing for Where do accessibility decisions actually get made?.

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Where do accessibility decisions actually get made?

Writing — read the piece

Meant to show
The designer whose concern was struck off the list months before the audit found it. The decision was made then, not at the audit.
Asked for
A man drawing a line through a list on a whiteboard while the woman who raised it watches from the back of the room
Drawn with (triad)
#3730ac#9e4646#46914c

Why these three

Three points spaced evenly around the wheel — the furthest apart three hues can be.

  1. SeedSHA-256 of where-do-accessibility-decisions-actually-get-made, which is the same every time and different for every piece.
  2. Base hueThe first two bytes as a fraction of 65,535, times 360 = 246°.
  3. GeometryThe third byte modulo 4 picks triad, which adds 0°, 120°, 240°.
  4. WobbleThree more bytes shift each by up to ±12° — −1.8°, −5.3°, −0.3° — so two pieces that draw the same geometry are still not the same shape on the wheel.
  5. Result#3730ac244° at 72% saturation, 67% value#9e46460° at 56% saturation, 62% value#46914c125° at 52% saturation, 57% value

Saturation never drops below 72% and value never below 78%, which is what keeps a hue reading as the color it was chosen to be rather than as a dark. More on how these are made.