#colourblindness — Public Fediverse posts

This is fascinating & really educational:

This site allows you to either use a sliding scale or put in hex codes to define #colour for both background and text, as well as determine text font size and thickness, and every combination is graded for #accessibility for people with #cataracts, #glaucoma, and various kinds of #ColourBlindness.

You can 'see' how that person would see your website.

A fail means that the #color combo offers some visual strain and should be avoided if possible.

WhoCanUse.com

#WebsiteDesign

Stories from living with #colourblindness for #ColourBlindAwarenessDay

This is my last one. I've had it rough but for kids today I think it's worse. Colour is used everywhere in teaching and the tech uses for it. Seems to be little thought given to including colourblind kids.
I've been posting this lot because, after 50 odd years I honestly think it should be better not worse.

I shouldn't be surprised given the way ppl with known disabilities are excluded but it still sucks.
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Stories from living with #colourblindness for #ColourBlindAwarenessDay

Despite what I've been saying here, it's not too bad living with colour blindness. You get used to the fact that your eyes lie to you.

The problem is the recent proliferation of poor colour choices in websites, modern tech (is that router light flashing green or orange?). This excludes us.

If you want us in your audience, make the small effort for the big impact. (See my first post today)
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Stories from living with #colourblindness for #ColourBlindAwarenessDay

When I was tested and found to be colourblind my mum asked what it meant. The nurse said "oh not too much, he won't be able to do certain jobs, like being a pilot"

I had always wanted to fly helicopters and so this was devastating news for me. I found other great careers but I wish I'd been able to pilot helicopters.

Colourblind people are not allowed to do certain jobs: military, electrician, among others.
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Stories from living with #colourblindness for #colourblindawarenessday

I've had this since birth but I didn't know until I was tested aged around 8.

My mum thought I was mucking around during the test and kept telling me off. Eventually she was asked to step outside so they could test me properly.

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Stories from living with #colourblindness for #ColourBlindAwarenessDay

I have deuteranomaly, commonly known as red/green colour vision deficiency. It's the most common form. I can see both colours but the red and green cones in my eyes are defective (to put it simply) and it means I mix those parts of colours up quite frequently.
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Stories from living with #colourblindness for #ColourBlindAwarenessDay

I was playing snooker with a mate and had to pot the brown ball. As I bent down to play it merged into the cushion shadow behind it.
No matter what I did I couldn't see the ball.
I had to ask my opponent to hold his finger above the brown and trust that he kept it there.

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Stories about living with #colourblindness for #ColourBlindAwarenessDay

Genetic/hereditary Colour blindness cannot be cured. Nope not even by those stupid sunglasses. They don't work and are a rip off.

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Stories from living with #colourblindness for #ColourBlindAwarenessDay

I have often had to point out that I can't tell which line on a business chart is red, green ,blue, purple etc.

I have frequently been told I should ask the person next to me to point at it!
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Feel free to mute the hashtags if you are fed up with these Stories from living with #colourblindness for #colourblindawarenessday but do please try to be more inclusive to your colourblind colleagues and friends.

Stories from living with #colourblindness for #ColourBlindAwarenessDay

As a schoolboy I spent a lot of time in shops being told by my mum to put the navy or dark green trousers back because I needed black ones.

I still struggle with this and rely on my wife or children a lot.

Stories from living with #colourblindness for #ColourBlindAwarenessDay

I can't remember the last time I ate a ripe banana. It's very hard for me to tell and bananas tend to go
Green
Less Green
Same Green
Brown
Black
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Stories of living with #colourblindness for #ColourBlindAwarenessDay

I once fainted in a meeting and fell off my chair because the person in front of me had a green t-shirt with red pinstripes.

My eyes couldn't focus on the lines and I got a kind of vertigo.

It was a bit like when someone says "don't look now..." I couldn't look away and paid for it.
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Many of my friends will, like me, have been teary-eyed watching one of many viral videos of people trying on a special pair of glasses that cure their #colourblindness. I was utterly convinced.

Well, turns out it might be a total scam, and at best doesn't help at all. I was completely taken in by the disguised viral marketing and wilfully blind to the lack of evidence. #enchroma #colorblindness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ppobi8VhWwo&t=0s

In 2020 Simon Jowitt wrote a great #EGUblogs post on what it's like to research and study #mineralogy with #ColourVisionDeficiency.

As #DisabilityPrideMonth comes to a close, we revisit his excellent advice on how you too can support your students who have #ColourBlindness and other colour vision differences.

Read more: https://egu.eu/57NM1J/