An additional good practice of web accessibility the Patagonia website practices is easily distinguishing the foreground from the background by using clear contrast. In this second module, we learned that people who have limited vision may have difficulty telling the difference between the background of your webpage and the foreground content unless there is clear contrast. In the article found in the “Perceivable” section of this second module titled “Contrast” from the Office for Digital Accessibility at the University of Minnesota, they too emphasize the importance of ensuring that the foreground and background colors and other visual indicators contrast each other, and how this can help you to communicate more effectively. Patagonia did a great job of taking this into account when designing their website as they use text that strongly contrasts the background and have a more-than-acceptable ratio of brightness to darkness, coming in at 21:1 on the Web Accessibility Contrast Checker I used to compare. They use mostly Black and White backgrounds and text to contrast each other, making their content and text more easily distinguished and readable against their website’s background for their audience.

What about using the notes for comparison and/or contrast of ideas?

Contrast to the peacefulness and acceptance of her visits at the wall, in which she does not distract herself from the figures. It seems she has finally snapped, finally decided she is sick of all that goes on -- which signifies an ending to this story.

The differences are between location (source to sink), speed of transmission, and just generally function. How can we define these differences?

Key difference between neurotransmitters and hormones is their range, distance, duration and speed of effect

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The navigation bar at the top of this webpage has clear contrast between the background and the foreground. This ensures that individuals experiencing limited vision will be able to navigate the website and tell the difference between the background and the foreground.

https://colourblind-palette-maker.glitch.me/

the color contrast between text and background elements on bbc.com have sufficient contrast, making content readable for users with visual impairments.

Accents: Contrast is created by means of highlighting certain elements of the music, either regularly or irregularly. When timbre or duration are not at play, accents are the only rhythmic criteria. Timbre: Contrast is produced by hearing/playing different tone colors in turn, either regularly or irregularly. When accents or duration are not at play, timbre is the only rhythmic criterion. Duration: Contrast is produced by the succession of unequal time val- ues. When accents or timbre are not at play, durations are the only rhythmic criteria. 16 As for meter, Arom adds that “it is in fact the most elementary manifestation of rhythm,” 17 made of identical durations with regular stress patterns. Fred Lerdahl and Ray Jackendoff suggest other definitions of the accent, of which they see three types:

her now against her 5 seconds ago

her being brave with kutti and now

she is now wanting her to throw a tantrum but before she would do anything for her to not

sunshine,supposed to be hopefull is now pale.

concentration yet tremblyness

bony with strong

looked kind but then went back to serious

Viji and Rukku, one who trusts and the other who hates

Good colour scheme that illustrates high contrast text. Low-contrast text is a common accessibility issue on many websites, poor contrast makes it harder for certain users to identify the text, edges, and shapes of several components.

(From my ITM550 project). I learned from my professors feedback that using grey as a theme colour/major colour in web design is a slight flaw as it is the least friendly colour for contrasting since it's a hard colour to convert. Solid colours are better to use.

The background of dark blue makes it almost impossible for me to read the text. Contrast is needed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o49C8jQIsvs

Video about the Double-Bubble Map: https://youtu.be/Hm4En13TDjs

The double-bubble map is a tool for thought for comparing and contrasting ideas. Albert Rosenberg indicates that construction of opposites is one of the most reliable ways for generating ideas. (35:50)

Bluma Zeigarnik - open tasks tend to occupy short-term memory.

I love his compounding interest graphic with the steps moving up to the right with the quote: "Even groundbreaking paradigm shifts are most often the consequence of many small moves in the right direction instead of one big idea." This could be an awesome t-shirt or motivational poster.

Watched this up to about 36 minutes on 2022-08-10 and finished on 2022-08-22.

Google translation:

9/8g The Zettelkasten technique is based on experience: You can't think without writing—at least not in contexts that require selective access to memory.

That also means: you can't think without notching differences.

There's something interesting about the translation here of "notching" occurring on an index card about ideas which can be linked to the early computer science version of edge-notched cards. Could this have been a subtle and tangential reference to just this sort of computing?

The idea isn't new to me, but in the last phrase Luhmann tangentially highlights the value of the zettelkasten for more easily and directly comparing and contrasting the ideas on two different cards which might be either linked or juxtaposed.

Link to:

• Graeber and Wengrow ideas of storytelling

• Shield of Achilles and ekphrasis thesis

• https://hypothes.is/a/I-VY-HyfEeyjIC_pm7NF7Q With the further context of the full quote including "with selective access to memory" Luhmann seemed to at least to make space (if not give a tacit nod?) to oral traditions which had methods for access to memories in ways that modern literates don't typically give any credit at all. Johannes F.K .Schmidt certainly didn't and actively erased it in Niklas Luhmann’s Card Index: The Fabrication of Serendipity.

This could serve as a contrast with Colonel Herncastle invaded an Indian armory and stole the Moonstone illegally in the family letter.

on contrast

This is a strange term because one might read "non-functional" and interpret in the sense of the word that means "does not function", when instead the intended sense is "not related to function". Seems like a somewhat unfortunate name for this concept. A less ambiguous term could have been picked instead, but I don't know what that would be.

The importance of learning to design, and interpreting/translating real-world needs.

Mathias Bynens en Twitter: “New accessibility feature in @ChromeDevTools: simulate vision deficiencies, including blurred vision & various types of color blindness. 🔥 Find out how people with vision deficiencies experience your web app, and resolve contrast issues you didn’t even know you had! https://t.co/QKLQmEhhMM” / Twitter. (n.d.). Twitter. Retrieved April 28, 2020, from https://twitter.com/mathias/status/1237393102635012101

This description contrasts with how he described his daughter when she was first learning to play soccer. In the beginning she was cautious and a bit afraid, and now she is strong and confident. Barry includes this comparison to reveal the positive impact that soccer has on girls since it teaches them to be fierce and brave, emphasizing the importance of soccer dads to keep their daughters motivated to keep going and growing.

The contrast of the two descriptions of the Hispanic moms is comical due to their very different sides. This line also gives Barry a moment to acknowledge the soccer moms who also come out to support their daughters.

Barry develops stark contrast between the two coaches regarding their personalities and coaching styles, but then follows this up by saying "But they're both great coaches, and I love them" (Barry). Readers can infer that Barry possibly uses this contrast to convey that not all coaches are the same, just like how no two soccer dads are the same. He does this to convey that all soccer dads, no matter their personalities, deserve recognition for their devotion to supporting their daughters and being at their games.

Barry's formal diction builds through the words "deemed," "worthy," and "wisdom," and then abruptly crashes to a very informal and disdainful tone. This contrast of very different choices of diction and tone that shift from one to the next is a unique method that conveys a great amount of sarcasm and humor.

The contrast between Charlotte’s and Mr. Parker’s attitudes towards these houses are somewhat farcical for the audience. While Charlotte, upon her first visit, is not associating the houses with any external values, Mr. Parker has come to deem the plain houses a gold mine.

The girls advert their attention to something else to restrain from their annoyance at Nurse Andrews, but there is a contrast to the entities they turn to: the table close up right before them versus the faraway, imagined desert, and the tiny insect versus a line of large mammalian camels.

In this scene, Shakespeare balances the perspectives of two major characters, Brutus and Antony, and through them, the general population’s divided opinions on the assassination. In Brutus’ eulogy of Julius Caesar, his tone and manner of speech highlights his respect of Caesar, yet he laments for Caesar’s ‘ambition’, which was Brutus’ justification for conspiring against Caesar. Brutus also naively allows Antony to give a eulogy of Caesar, on the clause that he would not accuse the conspirators of any wrongdoings, in assumption that it would further the conspirators’ standing and claims. Antony does give a speech that is deferential and full of praise, yet his use of repetition, mockery, use of pathos, and sarcasm degrades the standing of Brutus and his fellow conspirators, expelling the crowd’s previous positive sentiment of the conspirators into, whipping them into an emotional frenzy against the conspirators.

Mark Antony repeatedly asks rhetorical questions to the audience that contradict with Brutus’ claims of Caesar’s ever-dominating ‘ambition’ and ‘greed’, and deliberately ends each question by re-affirming that “Brutus is an honourable man”. His repeated use of rhetorical questions before stressing Brutus’ honour, who’s speech contradicted with Antony’s claims, forges a derisive and sarcastic tone to his praise of Brutus, undercutting and undermining Brutus’ standing with the plebeians, resulting in him fleeing from the city even before Antony finished his oration. This scene establishes Antony as a scheming and well-versed orator, who is bent on avenging Caesar as a front for advancing his own position in Roman society.

Shakespeare has employed the upper classes’ fear of Caesar (Namely Flavius and Murellus) and Caesar’s overwhelming support with the plebeians to build up Caesar into a deity; An indestructible and perpetual force. However, in the second scene of the play, this image of Caesar is completely reversed, with all of Caesar’s imperfections placed starkly in the spotlight.

When Cassius attempts to convince Brutus of the danger that Julius Caesar poses, he juxtaposes the public image of Caesar with the reality. The truth that Cassius tells is of a Caesar that nearly drowned, and cried to Cassius “Help me, Cassius, or I sink!” Though Cassius may be exaggerating or spinning tales in an attempt to convince Brutus to their cause, this scene still sharply contrasts with the figure of Caesar built up so far in the play.

While Caesar is talking to Antony, he commands him to “Come on my right hand, for this ear is deaf”, indicating that Caesar is deaf in his left ear. Shakespeare goes to extreme lengths to let the audience know of Caesar’s many physical and mental flaws in an attempt to show how even the seemingly most perfect people have their imperfections, and that in the end, everyone is as much of a human as one another, and that no human can ever become a god.

Signifyin' definitely differs from the Enlightenment concerns for uniformity and simplicity. Style and indirectness are virtues.

This is different than what we have been reading from Corder and others the past few weeks, who have been trying to advocate against rhetoric as a contest and more as a formative experience and something that should come from a place of love.

Contrasts general enlightenment thought, but especially Astell:

"But we shou'd fold up our Thoughts so closely and neatly, expressing them in such significant tho few words, as that the Readers Mind may easily open and enlarge them. And if this can be done with facility we are Perspicuous as well as Strong, if with difficulty or not at all, we're then perplext and Obscure Writers" (852).

even though the EU doesn't approve of polygamy, they still didn't appreciate when the Prime Minister "intervened" in peoples private lives.

for many people they believe that polygamy is criminal like but for others it is a huge part of their culture and normal. This is an interesting balance

This would require child to read different versions of the same story in order to understand different cultures. Students can make Venn diagrams or use other graphic organizers to compare and contrast

any of the classic fairy tales, cinderella, little red riding hood and more would help teach this standard.

intellectual property is often the propertization of what we call talent.

The idea that truth exists only in contrast to its opposite, with no fundamental autonomous, self-determining, independent, or sovereign foundation.

An interesting point that "we should not presume to claim that this contrast does not correspond o the essence of things".

This is a little tangential, but it like our use of exclamation points today. They are so overused they have no meaning or emphasis anymore