Is your website colorblind friendly?
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Is your website colorblind friendly?
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Re: Is your website colorblind friendly?
#2Just leave it up to the browser defaults what color links show up in(visited or not) and all should be fine, I've never had any usability problems aside from this. Actually, no, that's not entirely true, this chart [1] that I saw today is a really bad culprit. I have to focus a lot to distinguish between the "Novels" color and the "Short Stories that appear in First Meetings in the Enderverse" color and even then I'm not 100% sure I can tell.
Honestly though, what I've found is by far worse than websites in terms of color-blind friendliness is games. Lots of games, especially casual ones, where you match things based on color are really hard and sometimes impossible for me to play. Though in this area FOSS games almost always include a color-blind mode of some sort, for which I'm glad.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ender%27s_Game_(series)#Chronol...
Re: Is your website colorblind friendly?
#3But there is no such way to test a site persay, only upload individual images.
Re: Is your website colorblind friendly?
#4It says 'You can test your site with a color-blindness simulator, such as Colbindor' But there is no such way to test a site persay, only upload individual images.
Re: Is your website colorblind friendly?
#5It says 'You can test your site with a color-blindness simulator, such as Colbindor' But there is no such way to test a site persay, only upload individual images.
[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/spectrum/ofclemegk...
Re: Is your website colorblind friendly?
#6HN is one site that works quite well at 18 pt min. I don't know about color issues, but HN seems simple enough that it's probably not a problem.
HN also works great w/o JavaScript.
Re: Is your website colorblind friendly?
#7> In Illustrator, just go to View > Proof Setup > Color Blindness - Deuteranopia-type, and immediately see how your design looks in a limited spectrum.
Re: Is your website colorblind friendly?
#8Honestly, the only thing that has ever been a problem to me in terms of usability as a person with strong protanopia is sites that mess with link highlight colors. Just leave it up to the browser defaults what color links show up in(visited or not) and all should be fine, I've never had any usability problems aside from this. Actually, no, that's not entirely true, this chart [1] that I saw today is a really bad culp…
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})();Re: Is your website colorblind friendly?
#9It says 'You can test your site with a color-blindness simulator, such as Colbindor' But there is no such way to test a site persay, only upload individual images.
https://github.com/jaz303/ColorScope.js
It's by no means foolproof but I've found it useful for testing sites in development.