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The website just has a couple of articles but looks promising. I'm color blind and know the frustration to not be able to play some videogames or read charts w

The website just has a couple of articles but looks promising. I'm color blind and know the frustration to not be able to play some videogames or read charts which use very similar colors (at least to me). A lot of people don't even understand what color blind really is, it's a funny thing to explain what it is and joke about it with new friends / coworkers when the subject comes along. At least my coworkers now ask me first when choosing color coded post-it for the current project ;).

tomvb 14y ago
Thanks, I made the site and write the articles. If you (or anyone else) has any recommendations for articles or examples of what doesn't work for you, that would immensely help :)
- aw3c2 14y ago
  The good/bad ribbons need some color or tone coding. I did not see them at all at first. And they are not very distinguishable.
untog 14y ago
A lot of people don't even understand what color blind really is Too true. Two otherwise sensible, college-educated friends of mine once insisted that they'd be able to tell how my eyesight is different if I sat down and drew what I see out of the window. Using pencil crayons that presumably pierced through my colourblindness. I literally could not find a way to explain to them why it made no sense. "No, but we'll cover up the writing on the pencils so you can't read what colour they are" EDIT: I realise I misrepresented the scenario. This wasn't talking about colour-blindness specifically, but in more of a "maybe the blue you see is my red" scenario.
- ksmiley 14y ago
  Pardon my ignorance, but why wouldn't this work? Suppose you were red-green colorblind, and there was an apple tree with green "Granny Smith" apples outside your window. You can't tell if the leaves on the tree are red or green, but using common sense, you guess that they are green, and color them with the green pencil. You can't tell if the apples are red or green, but using common sense, you guess that they are red, and color them with the red pencil. "Ah ha", says your friend, "you colored the apples with red when they are actually green. You must be red-green colorblind"
  - vhf 14y ago
    That's how they discovered I was colorblind : When I was in kindergarten, the teacher gave us the assignment of drawing a brown bear. Mine was green.
  - albertoavila 14y ago
    Some color blind people are more affected than others on their same color blind group. In my experience doing an Ishihara test (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_perception_test http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_perception_test) whith someone else while telling them what are you seeing on each pod does wonders to make them understand specifically what shades of color cause you troubles, that's how my wife got to understand my color blindess.
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    - jwhite 14y ago
      There's also the fact that the ability to discern two colours depends on the two shades involved, and the shades that nature presents are probably different to the ones chosen by Faber-Castell. Also, when I was a kid I could tell the purple pencil from the blue if I held them together, but had trouble if I had just one on its own. (Still true today but I don't come across colour pencils so often...)
      - untog 14y ago
        Actually I am exactly the same. Inspired by all of this, I took an online test: http://www.opticien-lentilles.com/daltonien_beta/new_test_daltonien.php http://www.opticien-lentilles.com/daltonien_beta/new_test_da... Which seems to suggest that I am green-blind, but not red. With 1/7 wickline, but I have no idea what that means (suspect it has been lost in translation somewhere)
        LinaLauneBaer 14y ago
        This test seems to be flawed. I just did this test with four people and we all agreed that their correct solutions are sometimes wrong. Is an expert here?

tomvb 14y ago

Thanks, I made the site and write the articles. If you (or anyone else) has any recommendations for articles or examples of what doesn't work for you, that would immensely help :)

aw3c2 14y ago
The good/bad ribbons need some color or tone coding. I did not see them at all at first. And they are not very distinguishable.

untog 14y ago

A lot of people don't even understand what color blind really is Too true. Two otherwise sensible, college-educated friends of mine once insisted that they'd be able to tell how my eyesight is different if I sat down and drew what I see out of the window. Using pencil crayons that presumably pierced through my colourblindness. I literally could not find a way to explain to them why it made no sense. "No, but we'll cover up the writing on the pencils so you can't read what colour they are" EDIT: I realise I misrepresented the scenario. This wasn't talking about colour-blindness specifically, but in more of a "maybe the blue you see is my red" scenario.

ksmiley 14y ago
Pardon my ignorance, but why wouldn't this work? Suppose you were red-green colorblind, and there was an apple tree with green "Granny Smith" apples outside your window. You can't tell if the leaves on the tree are red or green, but using common sense, you guess that they are green, and color them with the green pencil. You can't tell if the apples are red or green, but using common sense, you guess that they are red, and color them with the red pencil. "Ah ha", says your friend, "you colored the apples with red when they are actually green. You must be red-green colorblind"
- vhf 14y ago
  That's how they discovered I was colorblind : When I was in kindergarten, the teacher gave us the assignment of drawing a brown bear. Mine was green.
- albertoavila 14y ago
  Some color blind people are more affected than others on their same color blind group. In my experience doing an Ishihara test (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_perception_test http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_perception_test) whith someone else while telling them what are you seeing on each pod does wonders to make them understand specifically what shades of color cause you troubles, that's how my wife got to understand my color blindess.
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  - jwhite 14y ago
    There's also the fact that the ability to discern two colours depends on the two shades involved, and the shades that nature presents are probably different to the ones chosen by Faber-Castell. Also, when I was a kid I could tell the purple pencil from the blue if I held them together, but had trouble if I had just one on its own. (Still true today but I don't come across colour pencils so often...)
    - untog 14y ago
      Actually I am exactly the same. Inspired by all of this, I took an online test: http://www.opticien-lentilles.com/daltonien_beta/new_test_daltonien.php http://www.opticien-lentilles.com/daltonien_beta/new_test_da... Which seems to suggest that I am green-blind, but not red. With 1/7 wickline, but I have no idea what that means (suspect it has been lost in translation somewhere)
      - LinaLauneBaer 14y ago
        This test seems to be flawed. I just did this test with four people and we all agreed that their correct solutions are sometimes wrong. Is an expert here?