Leveraging an App to Support Students with Color-Vision Deficiency and Color-Blindness in Online General Chemistry Laboratories

Assistive technologies remain important in supporting student learning in both in-person laboratories and the online laboratory environment. In this article, we describe an adaptation of a smartphone technology called the Color Blind Pal app to aid students in complementing online laboratory assignm...

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Published in:Journal of chemical education 2022-03, Vol.99 (3), p.1149-1154
Main Author: Wright, Casey Elizabeth
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adaptive technology
Assistive Technology
Blindness
Chemical precipitation
Chemistry
College Students
Color
Color blindness
Colorimetry
Curricula
Curriculum development
Distance Education
Emission analysis
Emission spectra
Handheld Devices
Learning
Online instruction
Science Experiments
Smartphones
Software
Students
Students with Disabilities
Teachers
Technology
Technology Uses in Education
Vision
Visual Impairments
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Summary:Assistive technologies remain important in supporting student learning in both in-person laboratories and the online laboratory environment. In this article, we describe an adaptation of a smartphone technology called the Color Blind Pal app to aid students in complementing online laboratory assignments in a general chemistry course. The app was integrated into three online laboratory experiments to help students collect data from simulated flame tests, atomic emission spectra, precipitation reactions, and colorimetric titrations. We share how incorporating the app has influenced our perspective on inclusive practices in the online lab curriculum as the app allows both users with color-vision deficiencies or color-blindness to make color observations and for instructors to simulate color-vision deficiencies when designing curricula. Given our use of the app as an assistive technology, we discuss implications for a shift toward universal design for learning (UDL) to proactively design inclusive online laboratory curricula.
ISSN:0021-9584
1938-1328
DOI:10.1021/acs.jchemed.1c00664