Skip to content
PlayOwl

Creative Arts · Grade 6

Design for an Audience and Accessibility

Learners design for real people. They read a design brief for audience, purpose, context and constraints; build visual hierarchy so the most important message is seen first; choose legible typography; make designs accessible with sufficient color contrast (calculating contrast ratios), more than color alone, alt text and plain language; and organize layouts with alignment, proximity, repetition, contrast, grids and white space.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 130 minutes
  • Design and accessibility check: 10 questions
  • Ways to answer: choose an answer, highlight a text, match pairs, type a number, put in order and sort into groups
See plans Included with Family, Teacher and School plans. Open in PlayOwl

What learners will discover

  • Analyze a design brief for audience, purpose, context and constraints, and build a visual hierarchy that matches its priorities.
  • Choose and set type for legibility: typefaces, size, case, line length, spacing and alignment.
  • Make designs accessible: calculate and apply contrast ratios, avoid relying on color alone, and write useful alt text.
  • Organize layouts with alignment, proximity, repetition, contrast, grids and white space.

Lessons

  1. Audience, purpose and hierarchy 5 steps3 practiceabout 32 min
  2. Typography for legibility 5 steps3 practiceabout 30 min
  3. Accessible color, contrast and alt text 7 steps4 practiceabout 36 min
  4. Layout principles and grids 6 steps3 practiceabout 32 min
  5. Design and accessibility check 10 questions at the end

Keep exploring

Games to practice with

  • Color by NumberA little color. A beautiful discovery.
  • Paint StudioBrushes, stamps, shapes and a paint bucket for any picture you can imagine.
  • Pixel StudioMake pixel art square by square, with mirror tools and a frame strip.

More 6th grade art

Guide for grown-ups