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Color blindness in humans is the inability to perceive differences between some or all colors that other people can distinguish. It is most often of genetic nature, but might also occur because of eye, nerve, or brain damage, or due to exposure to certain chemicals. |
| We do wish to design our websites in the best possible way we can imagine. We choose colors, spend time in improving the layouts, carefully build the navigation system, blah, blah. The main objective is to fulfill the needs of our visitors and make them feel comfortable and happy. But .. do we ever ask ourselves what our sites might appear to the people who are colorblinds? Do we take care of this aspect? (Till now I didn’t though I do try to use web-safe colors as much as possible). Dont get shocked to think that a certain percentage of your site’s visitors are colorblinds. I wonder how many websites in the world is built to suit the needs of these people. Today while surfing the net I found these online tools to see what my site might look like to the colorblinds. I was surprised. Note what the Google logo looks to people having Deuteranope (a form of red/green color deficit). Check your site through this wonderful online tool. Once you enter the url of your website it simulates the elements, saves them in its own server and then displays it to you. And …… BANG !! (Some useful Photoshop Plug-Ins for Windows and MAC OSX and OS 9 are also available for download.) Hope these tools come to ‘our’ help and let us try to do something for the colorblinds too. Yes we can do something, something that might help the present and future generation of web designers? Please share your thoughts .. | |
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Some good thoughts Ramnath and yes I do agree about your concern. I think we should increase the awareness as much as possible. Posts like these will help the cause. I will also try to find some remedies.