Artistic Color Blind Chart

• Posted on May 28th, 2009

I was contacted by Nick *spigget, an artist. He made a nice chart with pictures consisting of the different color blindness types.
Colorful fruits — great work. Thanks Nick. You can find more of his art work at his personal deviantART gallery.
Colorblind test chart by *spigget on deviantART

Most Mammals Are Colorblind or
The Evolution of Color Vision

• Posted on April 23rd, 2009

Our color vision is based on three different types of visual pigments. This is called trichromacy and as a matter of fact, it is quite unusual in the animal kingdom.
The following information is a compilation of the article Color Vision: How Our Eyes Reflect Primate Evolution.
Animals have either only one visual pigment, like a few [...]

Ishihara Elephant

• Posted on April 19th, 2009

The Japanese Professor Dr. Shinobu Ishihara is very well known as the originator of the pseudoisochromatic color blind test. For me this pictures look just like a bunch of colored dots. Others claim to see a hidden message.

What message does this nice pseudoisochromatic elephant have to tell you?
Foto taken by Roger Price

Color Blindness in Transportation

• Posted on April 16th, 2009

Brian Chandler—a red-green colorblind Traffic Engineer from Missouri—just started a new web site to discuss colorblindness and its effect on transportation. He named it Grey Means Go and gathered already some very nice examples.

Grey Means Go by Brian Chandler

If you tell somebody about your color blindness they often ask, if you have a driver license [...]

WoW Improves Accessibility for Colorblind Gamers

• Posted on April 6th, 2009

If you are colorblind it can be sometimes quite hard to play certain games. Something as simple as a green team playing against a red one can be a big issue if you have a color vision deficiency.
World of Warcraft is one of the most played games around the world. Blizzard, the company behind the [...]