[thelist] color blindness
Jorah Lavin
madstone at madstone.net
Fri Oct 6 06:14:57 CDT 2000
At 03:07 AM 10/6/00, Adrian Fischer wrote:
>Im colour blind and how things look is/has never been an issue. My level of
>colour perception is about as bad as it can get.
Not to play "I'm more handicapped than YOU are," but I can assure you that
color perception can get worse than that. The other day I was at work,
wearing a green shirt (which I thought was grey) and mid-morning one of the
admins goes "Hey, Jorah, why is there a huge red blotch on your shirt?" My
wife's sweater had bled all over the wash. I couldn't see the stain even
after it was pointed out to me.
Now, as to web sites, most of the time there are no problems, but I
remember several sites I've stumbled across which counted on a contrast
between text color and background color which didn't exist for me. I had
to "select all" on the page in order to change the colors to even see any
text there. If this happens in navigational elements, it can be disconcerting.
Before I started working with a real designer, my color selections, indeed,
were sometimes... well, --startling--, I guess would be the right word.
I doubt I'm missing a whole lot, but the "red stain on the green shirt"
incident makes me wonder...
-Jorah
PS: My great grand-dad saw only the color blue. Everything else was
grey. Imagine if we had to design for him! I am not sure I've ever seen
purple... it goes on and on...
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