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Also, the problem space is one that I haven't thought about, but probably should. After all, accessibility should be important to all of us.
I kind of wish the OS Vendors were not asleep at the wheel, and had features to address these issues as a 'built-in' value proposition for their products. I mean, it seems to me the sort of thing that a computer ought to know how to deal with, inherently .. and sure, some vendors do make an effort to make these kinds of human differences accessible. But its just .. well maybe there is a broader malaise with OS vendor…
Not sure about iOS, but Android has multiple color blind settings built in.
I have a legit question. Do colorblind people use some extension in their browser? This post gave me the idea that maybe some extension could show them the warnings and some options to scale the colors in an appropiate manner. My first idea was to try using it in development, to check how colorblind people see our apps and provide a solution. Do you have any further plans or ideas with this? (It's an interesting topi…
I suffer from deuteranopia and use the Spectrum extension in Chrome from Yehor Lvivski. It's ok for switching between different color modes so I can see differences in them. I am intrigued by the Enchroma glasses, haven't wanted to gamble $300+ on them yet.
I'm also a very heavy F.lux user, so all my color choices have to be usable with an orange filter as well.
One suggestion for designers & developers who need to be ADA-compliant: part of the spec is the level of contrast between different colors. We currently use WebAIM to check our color contrast: https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/
I'd recommend looking at the contrast levels needed to achieve ADA compliance, or any other compliance needed depending on the regulations in various countries, to make it easy for designers & devs.
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Disclaimer: I'm colorblind. There are SO MANY designs that use indistinguishable colors for no good reason at all. It's perverse that League of Legends uses blue and purple as its team colors—literally anything else (blue and red is my vote) would be easier for many colorblind users to tell apart. And a lot of heatmaps use gradients that go from blue to purple or from red to green…why‽ I'm willing to admit that the v…
Red and green are particularly easy to distinguish for people with normal vision because the sensitivity spectra overlap so much. So when you don't consider colorblind people it's a very natural choice.
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Disclaimer: I'm colorblind. There are SO MANY designs that use indistinguishable colors for no good reason at all. It's perverse that League of Legends uses blue and purple as its team colors—literally anything else (blue and red is my vote) would be easier for many colorblind users to tell apart. And a lot of heatmaps use gradients that go from blue to purple or from red to green…why‽ I'm willing to admit that the v…
Your comment reminded me of the talks on the issue of information display for Matplotlib[0][1]. I think a lot of design is done without awareness of accessibility and this is more broadly a cultural thing than a technical thing. The situation can be improved both by technical means (OS or hardware awareness) as well as by our collective education about what kinds of issues designs should consider. Typically, designs…
FYI, you should reissue your certificate. Chrome 66 is already blocking it (because of the Symantec fiasco). https://i.imgur.com/dWqeK74.png
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Disclaimer: I'm colorblind. There are SO MANY designs that use indistinguishable colors for no good reason at all. It's perverse that League of Legends uses blue and purple as its team colors—literally anything else (blue and red is my vote) would be easier for many colorblind users to tell apart. And a lot of heatmaps use gradients that go from blue to purple or from red to green…why‽ I'm willing to admit that the v…
League of Legends offers a colorblind mode in game that does exactly that - changes the teams to Blue and Red from Blue and Purple. IIRC, they even use that mode for their E-sports tournament streams - but I might be wrong on that as I haven't watched any LoL tournaments in quite some time. E: Just tuned into the EU LCS to take a screenshot - and it has colorblind mode on: https://vgy.me/ijQgrR.png
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Your comment reminded me of the talks on the issue of information display for Matplotlib[0][1]. I think a lot of design is done without awareness of accessibility and this is more broadly a cultural thing than a technical thing. The situation can be improved both by technical means (OS or hardware awareness) as well as by our collective education about what kinds of issues designs should consider. Typically, designs…
FYI, recent versions of iOS have a zoom / light / color-swap tool built in. You can enable it in Settings => General => Accessibility; it's called "Magnifier".
