[thelist] color blindness
Andrew Jones
aijones at northcoast.com
Fri Oct 6 09:10:48 CDT 2000
> The problem with your argument, Andrew, is that EVERY
> color scheme except mono is going to affect some segment
> of color blind people...
My argument is that we should try to accomodate people. I
don't see that as a problem.
You can *try* to accomodate the most common form of color
blindness without ruining your design.
>but having to make a decision that makes
> the site better for the MAJORITY of your viewers.
Per my 10 percent comment, I don't consider this segment
of the population to be insignificant. Your point seems to be
that accomodating these people ruins your design. That's true
if you only see one way of doing things.
Now, about some of these other comments that the color
blind perhaps don't see mix-matched colors as ugly. That's
good news, but it's a case of "they've never seen the world any
other way, so they have no way of knowing what they are
really missing." It hits at the very heart of perception. For
example, I had a (totally) blind friend in high school who, try
as you might to explain it to him, could never understand how
a drawn picture could look 3-D. Describing a simple line
drawing of a cube to him was an enigma. If you've never
experienced it, you may understand it exists, but you'll never
fully appreciate it.
In that respect, I have to guess it's possible to make
adjustments to a color scheme that would make it more
attractive to a color blind person than if the colors were left
unoptimized.
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