About 8% of the male population has some sort of color blindness
The color blind have the inability to clearly distinguish between different colors, they tend to see colors in a limited range of hues. Because of this, the color blind have trouble with a lot of websites, signs, games or anything else involving color.
We are Colorblind is dedicated to making the web a better place for the color blind.
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Normal vision
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Green-type colorblindness
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Red-type colorblindness
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Blue-type colorblindness
Featured
A quick introduction to colorblindness
78About 8% of the male population has some form of colorblindness. In this article we’ll take a look at the basics of how colorblindness works.
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Twitter Color Picker
January 6th, 2013
One of the more difficult tasks a colorblind person can encounter is naming color paired with making color combinations. Twitter requires such a thing.
Visual Website Optimizer
August 16th, 2012
Visual Website Optimizer provides some very good features that make their line charts very accesible for the colorblind.
Articles
Review: Oxy-Iso glasses
32March 17th, 2013
There a several ‘cures’ to colorblindness in the form of special glasses available. I’ve always been interested in giving them a try. Luckily o2amp.com got me a pair of their Oxy-Iso glasses to review.
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Guest Article: A Mother’s Journey into Colorblindness
44January 22nd, 2013
When my son Andrew was four years old his pre-school teacher told me that he was having trouble understanding simple patterns. I was already concerned that he couldn’t always identify colors correctly. Were these signs of a learning disability, or was it something else?
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