This is fascinating & really educational:

This site allows you to either use a sliding scale or put in hex codes to define #colour for both background and text, as well as determine text font size and thickness, and every combination is graded for #accessibility for people with #cataracts, #glaucoma, and various kinds of #ColourBlindness.

You can 'see' how that person would see your website.

A fail means that the #color combo offers some visual strain and should be avoided if possible.

WhoCanUse.com

#WebsiteDesign

How many accessibility issues can Openreach cause?

- Sign with very small writing at the top of very steep bank over 1 metre tall. I had to scramble up this to read the sign
- The sign uses smudged light orange on white print to describe what the planning advice notice is for.

Also the QR code doesn't open to a copy of the notice, but to their planning feedback form.

#OpenReach #Accessibility #AccessibilityFailure #Eyesight #ColourBlindness #ColorBlindness #Mobility

Just discovered a bug in my code caused because the requirements document had colour-coded lines in a flow chart that I couldn't see.

#Colourblindness

Around 450,000 children disadvantaged by lack of school support for color blindness

https://phys.org/news/2024-11-children-disadvantaged-lack-school.html

> Around 450,000 children are being failed by the UK education system because they have a special educational need and disability (SEND) that is effectively unrecognized by most schools and local education authorities, an author has warned.

#colourblindness #uk #colorblindness #education

.@BBCWorld article on #NeilHarbisson - the #cyborg who uses a camera augment to see #colour

https://bbc.com/news/articles/cg58r70yj43o

I'll look forward to checking out the documentary! 📺

#ColorBlindness #Color #ColourBlindness

_The Evening Post_, 18 September 1924:
            EYESIGHT TESTS
     IN THE RAILWAY SERVICE
  #Eyesight tests in the #Railway Department were recently the subject of a question addressed by Mr. F. Langstone (Waimarino) to the Minister of Railways. Mr. Langstone asked whether, in view of the fact that the Railway Department is submitting its permanent #employees to a strict eyesight test which numbers are failing to pass, he will see that no reduction in grades, salaries, or future increments and promotions…. Yesterday Mr. Coates replied : "When members fail to pass the eyesight test so that they cannot be kept in the positions … their pay is affected accordingly. If a suitable position … will not involve reducing his pay, that is done, but … it is … impossible to avoid the reduction of some of the members.… reductions are treated as being due to infirmity, and the superannuation rights of the members are preserved…. practically no reductions take place among the #guards as the result of defects in visual acuity. The reductions which the honourable member no doubt has in mind are due to defective colour perception…."
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19240918.2.160

#OnThisDay #OTD #PapersPast #EyeTests #Employees #ColourBlindness #CVD #NewZealand

Stories from living with #colourblindness for #ColourBlindAwarenessDay

This is my last one. I've had it rough but for kids today I think it's worse. Colour is used everywhere in teaching and the tech uses for it. Seems to be little thought given to including colourblind kids.
I've been posting this lot because, after 50 odd years I honestly think it should be better not worse.

I shouldn't be surprised given the way ppl with known disabilities are excluded but it still sucks.
#1in12 #1in200

Stories from living with #colourblindness for #ColourBlindAwarenessDay

Despite what I've been saying here, it's not too bad living with colour blindness. You get used to the fact that your eyes lie to you.

The problem is the recent proliferation of poor colour choices in websites, modern tech (is that router light flashing green or orange?). This excludes us.

If you want us in your audience, make the small effort for the big impact. (See my first post today)
#1in12

Stories from living with #colourblindness for #ColourBlindAwarenessDay

When I was tested and found to be colourblind my mum asked what it meant. The nurse said "oh not too much, he won't be able to do certain jobs, like being a pilot"

I had always wanted to fly helicopters and so this was devastating news for me. I found other great careers but I wish I'd been able to pilot helicopters.

Colourblind people are not allowed to do certain jobs: military, electrician, among others.
#1in12