About

What is this site about?

Wearecolorblind.com is a library with patterns and examples for anyone who designs, develops or is in another way involved with creating websites or content for the web.

You can help out with suggesting a pattern or an example!

What is a pattern?

A pattern describes an optimal solution to a common problem within a specific context. In this case, color blind not being able to use certain existing patterns on the web. The patterns on this site describe optimal solutions for the common problems color blind have on the web.

A pattern consists of a brief summary on usage, a description of the problems color blind have, one or two examples and finally a number of solutions.

Who made this site?

My name is Tom van Beveren and I’m a 23 year old guy from Delft, The Netherlands. As you might have guessed, I’m color blind (Deuteranopia).

During my Communication & Multimedia Design study, I got interested in usability, accessibility and everything else related to making usable websites. Combined with my day to day frustrations with websites that didn’t work for me, I decided to graduate on color blindness on the web.

You can find me on:

» Twitter: twitter.com/tomvb (dutch)
» LinkedIn: linkedin.com/tomvanbeveren
» Flickr: flickr.com/tomvb
» Last.fm: last.fm/herrflsh
» Delicious: del.icio.us/tomvanb
» Ffffound: ffffound.com/tomvb