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Colour blindness for web developers

Archive - Originally posted on "The Horse's Mouth" - 2005-04-22 18:49:38 - Graham Ellis

What does my web site look like to a colorblind visitor?

Thanks to the "Mining Amazon Web Services" book, I cam across this cool web site that simulates how your web page may look to a color blind visitor - it's at http://www.visicheck.com.

Here's a page about our "Of Course" newsletter as it would be seen by people with three different forms of colourblindness.






From top left.
Deuteranope - a form of red / green colour blindness
Protanope - another form of red / green color blindness
Tritanope - a rare blue / yellow deficiency
Control - the web site as seen by a user with regular vision

Note - these images are available larger. Simply click on an image with the right button (use CTRL-mouse on a Mac) and view the image in a new window.

Note - please use these images for guidance only. We suggest you look at the vischeck site and read their disclaimers and comments carefully.

In the UK, The Disability Discrimination act requires that providers of services take reasonable steps to make those services as accessible to those with any form of disability as they are to people without the disability. We have a training module available on the subject (it's available for free download as a .pdf too. As well as other DDA subjects (such as font sizes), this module also introduces the UK' privacy and data protection laws and a number of other topics you should be aware of.