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So... you want to be a web developer?

Workstation I had the most interesting conversation with one of my friends the other day.

Adam: "Whew... finally finished with my latest web project!"

Friend (in awe): "Whoa! That's awesome! How did you make that?"

Now, of course, this project of mine was a full-fledged ASP.NET web application; a simple question like "how did you make that" could easily end up with me not only explaining what I did, but how I did it, and which tools and technologies I used. That way, instead of wondering about the magic that makes all those fancy programs out there on the internet work, my friend could understand exactly what goes on to make that happen.

Well, that couldn't hurt, right?

Adam: "Do you really want to know? I'm warning you... this could get messy."

Now, at this point, my friend gives me one of those funny looks like I'm completely crazy. But being a web developer, I'm already used to that.

Friend: "Well, sure..."

And so it begins.

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Filed under: Internet, Ask DLS

Ask DLS: Web browsing for the color blind

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Remember when your less than cool cousin started blogging and used black text on a background covered in multi-colored flames? And you shortly developed a headache, not only from the content but from squinting and tilting your head to the side just so you could sort of read the text. If you are color blind your every day web browsing might be a bit like this as well.

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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