One of my expressive paintings for #ColourBlind awareness day. Not previously inflicted upon Mastodon.

I use reds, greens, oranges, browns and yellows interchangeably merely as shades of each other. I use them as the mood takes me.

A bucolic abstraction from a happy late summer pre pandemic.

8% of men and 2% of women will see pretty well what I see.

Today is my day for a flurry of posts about #ColourBlind #ColorBlind issues.

It ties in nicely with #FamilyHistory research.

According to mom my grandfather irritated gran when he complimented her red hat.

My male cousins and me each had reduced career choice ... I couldn't do chemistry, Dave couldn't join the police, Richard couldn't be an electrician.

None of us saw the brown ball on the snooker table. Nor the pink. Nor the green.

And the #AncestryDNA colour dots aren't much use at all.

@dnikub

Thank you!

I gather today 6th September is #ColourBlindness awareness day.

#ColourBlind

#a11y Do not use colour as your only indicator for information! 🚫

This restaurant uses red, green and brown coloured dots to display the dietary info of a meal. There is no chance of telling them apart if you are #ColourBlind. They are just too similar.

To solve this issue:

- Use different icons or abbreviations (e.g. v+ for vegan, v for vegetarian)
- Write a word instead of relying on an icon
- Use colours that are more distinguishable and have good contrast in addition (!) to the text

@simongerman600

You may jest ... Being #Colourblind makes all the flags comprising coloured horizontal or vertical bars a total no-go for me.

This would be great!

So I have gotten hooked on #Foundation . It's an odd show cause it feels like a more serious sci-fi, that's also throwing in action-y bits for presumably broader appeal.

Anyway, there was a scene in mid S1 where the younger Dawn emperor is hunting creatures (sort of 'sci-fi quails') with his older clone, the Dusk emperor. On his first attempt, Dawn is able to kill twice as many as Dusk's current record.

It's later revealed that Dawn is an imperfect clone, and has colourblindness. The implication here is it enabled him to see the 'sci-fi quails' more easily, as camouflage is sometimes more easily discerned by colourblind people.

This is a factoid I've known about since I was a kid, though I've never really tested it.

Anyway, I thought it was an interesting and quite subtle reference.

#foundation
#colourblind #colorblind #colourblindness #colorblindness

@ghostrunner Previously saw this one without alt text and didn't get the joke. Thanks! #ColourBlind

"Oh, for fuck's sake!" said Kim, the words coming easily through force of habit.
#ColourBlind #Accessibility #UserInterface

@stux One of my first jobs was in a lab in a paint factory. My boss asked me to colour match a sample. He was less than pleased with my poor attempt and even less pleased when I told him I was red-green colour blind. Well they never asked me at the interview. Was relegated to formulating primer paint that would stick to very slippy plastic handles. No colour work involved. #ColorBlind #ColourBlind.

My #colourblind child - Mum are there any purples mixed in with these?

Having prepared a full set of #heraldic #hatchings I've used almost all of them in the first hatched #PrideShield, the intersectional shield.

The idea is to present the design(s) in a way that is equally #accessible to #colourblind and non-colourblind people. However due to the nature of the hatching patterns I'm concerned about triggering epileptic seizures, so I'm putting it behind a warnings. Opinions welcome.

@StopPress it may be to you, but it’s completely and utterly meaningless to anyone who’s #colourblind with protanopia. Every colour on that looks exactly the same to me 😂

@prometheus @garius now you know how us #colourblind folk feel in MacDonalds, running the “is it bbq/is it ketchup?” gauntlet 😀

Just stick a damn label on it…

I don't get it, they're all the same colour #colourblind

Oh come on #theGuardian, how hard is it to use high-contrast colours? I, #1in200women and #1in12men, am #colourblind, and this chart is basically "health" and "other" to me.

@stjepanlukac Maybe it'll help to tag with the actually relevant piece of information asked about so people looking for that content here see it more easily?

#ColourBlind #ColorBlind question for other people above this.

This is going to be fun #colourblind https://www.instagram.com/p/CoAM60NIS5U/?igshid=YTgzYjQ4ZTY=

Would you like to donate to charity? Press red for no or green for yes #colourblind

I was always told no device could compensate colour-blindness. Now 90 international museums offer coulour-enhancing glasses to colourblind visitors. I've been to some of these museums and never heard of EnChroma’s Color Accessibility Programme. If that works, why can't these glasses be used in everyday life?
#inclusivity #colourblind
https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2023/01/12/color-blindness-glasses-museums/

Well, of course I got up early to put the WRONG bin out.

F*ck off colour-blindness-bin-roulette.

#colourblind