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Cool stuff. would be nice to have a color blind mode. I literally can't distinguish the red from green in this visualization.

• notlion 7mo ago
  Came here to mention this. I'm also Red/Green colorblind.
  • grigio 7mo ago
    There is also +/- % in the boxes
• RomanPushkin 7mo ago
  Created a temp hack for you: https://gist.github.com/ro31337/89b24edaec0a5bfbf73bc5abfbfb17ce https://gist.github.com/ro31337/89b24edaec0a5bfbf73bc5abfbfb... (don't forget to "allow pasting" in [chrome] console first)
• conductr 7mo ago
  Curious as someone that doesn't experience the issue but assumes that your system Accessibility settings, maybe high-contrast, would be useful instead of expecting individual sites to tailor their color palette... does that not work?
  • kieranmaine 7mo ago
    This comment prompted me to find out about colour filters for mac os. I enabled the red/green filter, which made it easier to see the differences on the site, however the downside is it affects a lot of other colors and images on other sites, so is not a feasible solution, for me at least.
    • conductr 7mo ago
      I toggle it on and off with a keyboard shortcut on a rare occasion colors are hard to read for me. Mostly use it on my phone actually (it's a triple click of the lock button on my iPhone). There are shortcuts on Windows and MacOS too. Doesn't seem like it would be too inconvenient for someone that actually suffers from color blindness or a sight issue, I would expect they'd run into the issue more commonly than me and would then know how to solve it for themselves. A lot more inconvenient for others to have to pick colors that satisfy all potential sight issues, which is primarily why I think it should be an OS solution rather than an individual creator's responsibility. It's not that I don't care about those with the sight issue, it's purely about who is responsible for creating a reasonable solution. And honestly, there's no way every creator is going to study accessibility and so it's just a never ending uphill battle. If you had a tool in your system already that could help, why wouldn't you use it?
      • sh4rks 7mo ago
        fix(ui): improve accessibility and screen reader compatibility Co-authored-by: Claude <claude@anthropic.com>
  • vharuck 7mo ago
    People who make data visualizations should try to learn the "rules of thumb" to not confuse or exclude readers: 1) Avoid contrasting red/green and blue/yellow, as these are common colorblind pairs. 2) Pick shades that still look different when shown in grayscale. 3) All bar charts should have 0 at one end. 4) Please no 3-D pie charts. To find good color palettes, check out https://colorbrewer2.org https://colorbrewer2.org
    • conductr 7mo ago
      Everyone is creating visuals, not just data scientists or designers that probably should know these rules. I generally am against people who have expectations of how they want others to communicate. Be it colors, pronouns, whatever- you’re just setting yourself up for disappointment and it’s not out of malice so just move on or find your own way to deal with what people are putting out there.
• limbicsystem 7mo ago
  Maybe a job for Daltonize: https://www.vischeck.com/run.html https://www.vischeck.com/run.html It twiddles colors in a physiologically-aware manner to improve legibility for colorblind observers: https://github.com/wadelab/VischeckTinyeyes/blob/main/website/assets/img/aboutDaltonize/simulatedJobMap/overviewSim.png https://github.com/wadelab/VischeckTinyeyes/blob/main/websit...