DLS reader, Eric, sent us a question, wondering if there was anything out there to help color blind web surfers see things, like weather maps, a little bit more clearly. "Like 8-10% of males, I have a degree of red-green colorblindness. Unfortunately, many web designers do not take this group into account when designing web sites and applications. This leaves many features most people enjoy daily unusable or at least hard to read for people with this condition" Eric says.
The simply named Colorblind Web Page Filter may be a solution. It's not fancy and it's still in development stages, but if you type in a URL and pick your color filter (red/green colorblind, grayscale, etc.) according to the type of colorblindness you have it will load up a page that you can hopefully read a little bit better than that white text over kittens. If not, break out the 3D glasses to really spice things up!
[Thanks, Eric]
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7-18-2008 @ 9:36AM
gnome said...
Thanks for the info. This looks like a good start, but now I need to run off to work on my white-text-over-kittens killer app. :-)
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7-18-2008 @ 11:34AM
Christina Clark said...
Make sure you send us a tip for that one! We'll definitely want to write about it.
7-18-2008 @ 2:06PM
MikeSims said...
You can also check out VisCheck. They also have a plugin for photoshop so you can check comps
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7-18-2008 @ 4:02PM
gnome said...
One that looks very useful is called EyePilot, that does transformations of colors through a "window frame" you drag over the app you want to see better.
http://www.colorhelper.com
$35, but may be worth it if it works as advertised
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7-18-2008 @ 4:03PM
Christina Clark said...
Looks cool. Let us know if you try it out.
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