Colorblind: Checking figure accessibility for colour blind people
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#2Neat but still hard for me (red/green) to differentiate colors between some. The Merge + Tubulin one in particular.
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#3Why does this single headline use two different spellings for the word colo(u)r?
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#4Can a colorblind person remap colors on their own screen?
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#5Can a colorblind person remap colors on their own screen?
We can, yes. But then everything looks weird. :)
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#6As someone who is colorblind, I recommend testing accessibility with grayscale.
If it works in grayscale, it should work for basically all colorblindness types.
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#7Can a colorblind person remap colors on their own screen?
We can, yes. But then everything looks weird. :)
Yeah, some non-colorblind people mistakenly think we can "fix" it by mapping trouble colors to different colors because they fundamentally misunderstand that we always see like this.
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#8Why does this single headline use two different spellings for the word colo(u)r?
Because the author is making a reference to a song with the title "Colorblind", as explained in the footnote:
> The post title comes from “Colorblind” by Super Furry Animals, a B-side to their Do Or Die single.
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#9For anyone working on a Mac, I highly recommend Sim Daltonism. It gives you an interactive display on your Mac that you can place over any section of your screen to simulate what it looks like to a colorblind person. It simulates several different types of colorblindness. I have a friend who is colorblind, and to the best of our mutual understanding, it is accurate.
Re: Colorblind: Checking figure accessibility for colour blind people
#10For anyone working on a Mac, I highly recommend Sim Daltonism. It gives you an interactive display on your Mac that you can place over any section of your screen to simulate what it looks like to a colorblind person. It simulates several different types of colorblindness. I have a friend who is colorblind, and to the best of our mutual understanding, it is accurate. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sim-daltonism/id69311…
Thanks for the recommendation. I tried it out as a colorblind person. I'm always looking for one of two things -- tools that will help me differentiate stuff I see on graphs and charts (endlessly frustrating) and tools that will let me show other people how I see.
My problem is that I've never found a colorblind emulator that matches my colorblindness. I'm just red-green deficient, so nothing exotic.
My test for these emulators is whether I see a difference between the original unmodified image and the emulated colorblind image, and I always do. Even with this one. So that tells me that the emulation doesn't really match what I personally see or I wouldn't be able to tell the difference.