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The world wide web in black and white

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Re: The world wide web in black and white

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Post by cstuder »

hayksaakian wrote: post #5
skreech wrote: post #2

Is this a conspiracy of the color blind to level the playing field?

On a related note, an extension that modifies colors to be colorblind friendly may actually be useful.

Not exactly what you were asking, but you can check your software/webpage/publications with a tool like Color Oracle. It simulates different types of color blindness on your computer screen.

http://colororacle.org/

Re: The world wide web in black and white

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Post by lukeholder »

padolsey wrote: post #8

It's amazing how something so seemingly minor can make such a huge difference. I feel like I'm traversing the web of yesteryear (true yesteryear, not the animated gif'd web of 1997). Thanks for the link OP! One critique: The desaturation occurs a noticeable ~300ms after the page starts displaying, which means I always get a brief flash of colour.

apart from that flash of color, I am really enjoying it also. It is almost calming, and allows me to focus on content much more easily - very similarly to the way readability or instapaper do without the need to switch contexts.

Re: The world wide web in black and white

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Post by GuiA »

hayksaakian wrote: post #5
skreech wrote: post #2

Is this a conspiracy of the color blind to level the playing field?

On a related note, an extension that modifies colors to be colorblind friendly may actually be useful.

Adding to the list of suggestions by other commenters, Sim Daltonism: http://michelf.ca/projects/sim-daltonism/

I remember using it for a university project in 2007, in which we had to build a movie lookup website from scratch. I used Sim Daltonism to design 3 alternative CSS that would cater to the needs of people with different types of colorblindness (there's not just one type, although deuteranomaly (red/green colorblindness) is the most widespread).

The teacher thought it was superfluous and took points off. sigh :)

Re: The world wide web in black and white

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Post by judofyr »

padolsey wrote: post #8

It's amazing how something so seemingly minor can make such a huge difference. I feel like I'm traversing the web of yesteryear (true yesteryear, not the animated gif'd web of 1997). Thanks for the link OP! One critique: The desaturation occurs a noticeable ~300ms after the page starts displaying, which means I always get a brief flash of colour.

You can avoid the flash by adding this into the Custom.css:

    html {
      -webkit-filter: grayscale(100%); 
    }
On Mac it's in ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/User StyleSheets/Custom.css.

Re: The world wide web in black and white

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Post by motdiem »

Maci wrote: post #13

Who needs plugins. MacOS X > System Preferences > Universal Access - Seeing - Display: [x] Use grayscale

Thanks - this strangely makes using the computer a more soothing experience. Tried it for a few minutes, when I turned the color back on, it seemed suddenly very loud.

Re: The world wide web in black and white

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Post by Surio »

Stumbled upon a HBR aticle from my bookmarks and I wanted to post it on HN (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4626227) for a larger audience:

On firefox, the original HBR article, when viewed with this plugin completely wipes out the page. You may want to check your plugin on that page to see why it messes up your code. :)

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