Make figures and presentations that are friendly to Colorblind people (2002)
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Re: Make figures and presentations that are friendly to Colorblind people (2002)
#2Full title: "Color Universal Design (CUD)[0] - How to make figures and presentations that are friendly to Colorblind people"
Link to PDF: https://jfly.uni-koeln.de/html/manuals/pdf/color_blind.pdf
Color Universal Design Organization (CUDO) resources (palettes, guidebooks).[1,2,3]
[0] https://www2.cudo.jp/wp/?page_id=1936
[1] https://jfly.uni-koeln.de/colorset/
[2] https://github.com/atsuyaw/CUDcolorset
[3] http://www2.cudo.jp/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/cud_guideb...*
Re: Make figures and presentations that are friendly to Colorblind people (2002)
#3As someone who is mildly colorblind, but not nearly as color deficient as others—Please please please use actual colorblind testers.
I have seen testers with full color vision test color contrast ratios based on edges only (pixels) of text affected by font anti-aliasing. This is pointless and serves to dilute the premise.
Re: Make figures and presentations that are friendly to Colorblind people (2002)
#4As someone who is mildly colorblind, but not nearly as color deficient as others—Please please please use actual colorblind testers. I have seen testers with full color vision test color contrast ratios based on edges only (pixels) of text affected by font anti-aliasing. This is pointless and serves to dilute the premise.
Also test your new UI on older people. The older you get the harder it gets to distinguish between things with low contrast. Apple is really bad at this with the newer MacOS design, but obviously not the only once. It is like old people don’t use computers, and yes, it will happen to you to.
Re: Make figures and presentations that are friendly to Colorblind people (2002)
#5As someone who is mildly colorblind, but not nearly as color deficient as others—Please please please use actual colorblind testers. I have seen testers with full color vision test color contrast ratios based on edges only (pixels) of text affected by font anti-aliasing. This is pointless and serves to dilute the premise.
Also test your new UI on older people. The older you get the harder it gets to distinguish between things with low contrast. Apple is really bad at this with the newer MacOS design, but obviously not the only once. It is like old people don’t use computers, and yes, it will happen to you to.
It's not just contrast. It's also font size. It's also the font itself.
All websites should be readable in Firefox or Safari (or Chrome but I don't use that) with the minimum font size set larger than the default. I use 18 min and a lot of stuff breaks. I'm sure that other people would greatly benefit from even larger fonts.
I don't care about "pretty". I'm resigned to not getting that. But a lot of text simply disappears when the minimum font size is bumped up.
At least Firefox manages to render most sites at a decent size when I set 18 min. Safari, for some reason, still struggles with that.
Also, I generally read everything using Lucida Grande. It's a nice legible font. Firefox allows me to force that font. Safari doesn't. Just how fucking hard would it be for Apple to let me choose my own font in Safari?
Re: Make figures and presentations that are friendly to Colorblind people (2002)
#6tl dr.. use grayscale instaed?
Re: Make figures and presentations that are friendly to Colorblind people (2002)
#7As someone who is mildly colorblind, but not nearly as color deficient as others—Please please please use actual colorblind testers. I have seen testers with full color vision test color contrast ratios based on edges only (pixels) of text affected by font anti-aliasing. This is pointless and serves to dilute the premise.
Testing for color blindness and contrast is an area of accessibility where the tools are actually very good. Even the built-in tools in every browser will tell you about contrast levels. There are enough variations of color blindness and visual acuity problems that relying on manual testing probably won't catch much.
Re: Make figures and presentations that are friendly to Colorblind people (2002)
#8It's really great how the world changes to accomodate those of us who are less fortunate in some physical capacity - for example wheelchair access to buildings and transportation where everyone wins.
In other cases the drive for equality means everyone has to be equaly harmed, like when institutions of higher education remove online courses from public access due to lack of captions [0]
I hope we are mature enough to accept someone who experiences reality in a different way [1] is not necessarily dimished by that and that being supportive of them in their uniqueness is the sign of a healthy society but also that being supportive isn't the same as bending over backwards.
[0] https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/03/06/u-california-...
[1]Blind people have their other senses heightened. How is that not amazing?!
Re: Make figures and presentations that are friendly to Colorblind people (2002)
#9One tool I've found really helpful in this regard is Color Oracle (https://colororacle.org/). It lets you see what your presentation (or software) looks like to someone who is colorblind. I've used that to tune our software to be useable by colorblind individuals.
Re: Make figures and presentations that are friendly to Colorblind people (2002)
#10As someone who is mildly colorblind, but not nearly as color deficient as others—Please please please use actual colorblind testers. I have seen testers with full color vision test color contrast ratios based on edges only (pixels) of text affected by font anti-aliasing. This is pointless and serves to dilute the premise.
Also test your new UI on older people. The older you get the harder it gets to distinguish between things with low contrast. Apple is really bad at this with the newer MacOS design, but obviously not the only once. It is like old people don’t use computers, and yes, it will happen to you to.
> Apple is really bad at this with the newer MacOS design,
They do, however, provide several options for dealing with this in their Accessibility settings - "Increase contrast", "Differentiate without colour", "Reduce transparency", etc.