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Web: As Seen By The Color Blind
- alex_c 18y agoAs someone with very mild red-green colorblindness (based on the article, probably protanomaly or deuteranomaly), I'm not really ever affected on the web. However, I HATE it when games (often puzzle games) use red and green color coding. I see them as distinct colors, but for certain shades, the contrast between them is very slight, which makes the game a lot more difficult and frustrating. I guess it's one of those things where if no one on the team suffers from it, they have no real reason to consider it.
- Oompa 18y agoI'm in the same boat. That's why I'm glad when games, like Peggle, or Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (not really a puzzle game, but still works for the example) have options for color blind people. It's not that always difficult to add, but makes a huge difference to the end user, if they're colorblind.
- silencio 18y agoColorblind people are only just one small group that need to be considered. Since not many sites use a blatantly impossible color scheme (truth be told the last time I've been told by a colorblind friend that there was a problem was back when Apple used red and green dots for iPhone availability (2g, not 3g), now Apple's using shapes and colors), I'd say the bigger accessibility travesty I can think of now are sites that use image-based captchas with no alternatives (audio, answer a question, etc.). Grrrr. Not to say I don't think much of colorblindness (I still test for that on the sites I work on, there are some excellent tools around for that purpose), and not to say that I love spam, but I hate those particular types of captchas.