Re: Colour Blindness & Screen Colours in Computer Applications

From: Ed Prochak <ed.prochak_at_magicinterface.com>
Date: 25 Oct 2005 12:35:25 -0700
Message-ID: <1130268925.167692.11700@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>

Tim Marshall wrote:
> In a recent review of someone's web site on a hobby forum, one poster
> mentioned the difficulties for folks with some forms of colour blindness
> to see some of the text of the web site in question.
>
> Are there any general guidelines for this sort of thing in designing
> screens in computer applications?
>

Don't know if this is a standard test but, try testing the site from a Black and white workstation. Yeah, it might be hard to come by a black and white only monitor.

Long ago working from a SUN B&W workstation, I visited a site which looked all black. Well it was one of the first color sites, and they used lots of dark reds and blues.

HTH.
Ed Received on Tue Oct 25 2005 - 14:35:25 CDT