{"id":241,"date":"2009-02-09T04:44:13","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T09:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/09\/color-blindness\/"},"modified":"2009-10-11T20:52:47","modified_gmt":"2009-10-12T01:52:47","slug":"color-blindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/09\/color-blindness\/","title":{"rendered":"Color Blindness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Roughly 10% of men are <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colorblind\">color blind<\/a> to some degree.<\/strong>  You need to be sure your interfaces are accessible to them.  (Unless you are designing exclusively for women I suppose, since <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colorblind#Genetic_modes_of_inheritance\">women are about 20x less likely to be color blind<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/michelf.com\/projects\/sim-daltonism\/\">Sim Daltonism<\/a> is the best way to test an interface on Mac OS X I&#8217;ve seen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/colorfilter.wickline.org\/\">Here is a web-based colorblindness simulator<\/a>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/vischeck.com\/vischeck\/\">Here is another<\/a>.  Personally I prefer a native program though.  It&#8217;s faster and more versatile.<\/p>\n<p>If you are curious, <a href=\"http:\/\/colorvisiontesting.com\/online%20test.htm\">you can test yourself for colorblindness<\/a>.  I have no idea how accurate that test is, but since different displays and operating systems usually show colors differently I&#8217;d be a little skeptical.<\/p>\n<p>ADDITION 2009-10-11: <a href=\"http:\/\/wearecolorblind.com\/\">WeAreColorBlind.com<\/a> is a website dedicated to design patterns for the colorblind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roughly 10% of men are color blind to some degree. You need to be sure your interfaces are accessible to them. (Unless you are designing exclusively for women I suppose, since women are about 20x less likely to be color blind.) Sim Daltonism is the best way to test an interface on Mac OS X [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,12,3,4,8],"tags":[304,296,614,81,125],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessibility","category-design","category-macosx","category-programming","category-usability","tag-color","tag-interface","tag-interface-builder","tag-internet","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions\/433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}