I was reading though my week old RSS feed data (collected whilst of "vacation") and came across a post on the Unofficial Apple Blog about Color Oracle which allows the simulation of various forms of color blindness for visual testing. Not only is it available on the Mac, but Windows and Linux too. Free to boot.
http://www.tuaw.com/2007/10/12/color-oracle/ for the article and additional links.
Color blindness testing
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In windows (Vista at least), there's an option in the 'Ease of Access' menu to up the contrast for color blind people. Just thought I'd throw that in.
Set Search Time - A google chrome extension. When you search only results from the past year (or set time period) are displayed. Helps tremendously when using new technologies to avoid outdated results.
- CoderGoblin
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This Accessibility Color Wheel has been mentioned on these forums before.
It is my opinion that user accessibility is not something the majority of us really take into consideration during design, despite the fact that it a legal requirement in many countries.
It is my opinion that user accessibility is not something the majority of us really take into consideration during design, despite the fact that it a legal requirement in many countries.
Re: Color blindness testing
It is good for anyone to take such a
http://offsetpressman.blogspot.com/2009 ... nters.html
color blindness test. It doesn't mean you just see black and white. If you are a male, your chances of having a green or red disability are 1 in 20. Go ahead, take a test.
http://offsetpressman.blogspot.com/2009 ... nters.html
color blindness test. It doesn't mean you just see black and white. If you are a male, your chances of having a green or red disability are 1 in 20. Go ahead, take a test.
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Re: Color blindness testing
This is something I I didn't consider at all in all my designs so far. So thinking back at what I've done over the years, I think I caused much problems to those who don't see as well as we do.bikozak wrote:It is good for anyone to take such a
http://offsetpressman.blogspot.com/2009 ... nters.html
color blindness test. It doesn't mean you just see black and white. If you are a male, your chances of having a green or red disability are 1 in 20. Go ahead, take a test.