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Re: Play With Our WebApp - ColorBlindMe

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Post by kirubakaran »

LogicHoleFlaw wrote: post #19

Interestingly to me, the site of my old university sci-fi club looks almost exactly the same in both modes. Maybe that navy-and-grey color scheme was good for something after all.

Blue is good for red-green colorblindness, the most common type. I remember reading that it affects 5% of the population.

Re: Play With Our WebApp - ColorBlindMe

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Post by silencio »

kirubakaran wrote: post #16
rsayers wrote: post #3

Cool idea, with a little work this could be a very useful tool for color seeing folk. The method you use could definitely use tweaking though, Ive seen other sites that do this which produce images that look identical to the original to me (im red/green colorblind), but with this there is a significant difference.

Thanks. Yeah it is very much a work in progress. > (im red/green colorblind) If it is okay with you, can you please email us at dev@colorblind.com so that we can ask you to test few things for us in the future?

there are a few apps out there that simulate different types of colorblindness that I find useful for testing all sorts of things (websites, apps, videos and more) when I can't easily find someone who is colorblind. you might find them useful for testing, like http://colororacle.cartography.ch/ which looks to be cross-platform (I only know of ones for OS X).

also in terms of general feedback, I love the idea and it's great for occasional use for a small set of pages, but I can't imagine using the current feature set for any significant testing and testing of anything that's not a webpage. i really love the idea of delivering the whole screen, especially without installing much beyond a firefox extension :)

Re: Play With Our WebApp - ColorBlindMe

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Post by geuis »

geuis wrote: post #24

I don't know much about the effects of color blindness. Does white always look like pink to those folks? Looking at Google.com via ColorBlindMe

who in the heck is voting me down for asking this question? Its an honest question that relates to color blindness for someone who isn't color blind, and it relates to whether or not this color blind tool is accurate or not.

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Post by mwerty »

geuis wrote: post #26
geuis wrote: post #24

I don't know much about the effects of color blindness. Does white always look like pink to those folks? Looking at Google.com via ColorBlindMe

who in the heck is voting me down for asking this question? Its an honest question that relates to color blindness for someone who isn't color blind, and it relates to whether or not this color blind tool is accurate or not.

Thanks for the valid bug report. We noticed it too. Our translation needs work.
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