I was a bit over-ambitious on this project and wanted to do a guided tour of Panem from the Hunger Games and very quickly found out the trouble with using public, user-created maps in ArcGIS is that many of them are inaccurate. I did get to explore the express maps functionality more in-depth and discovered that you can use an image as a backdrop when creating a map now which was an exciting (and useful) discovery.
I’d feel very comfortable showing someone how to use Storymaps, it’s an immersive storytelling tool that I’ve used many times before. When you’re creating a Storymap there are a lot of accessibility features that you can include to make your project more accessible from alt text to a contrast checker for themes, and it’s really important to make use of those tools whenever possible. I’m not sure how accessible the foundational mapping tools are so that might be something for me to explore further. A good storymap has a clean design, and clear organization, takes advantage of the affordances provided by the multimedia tool to break up walls of text, and avoids crowding maps with messy data.