Gregor AischFeb 9, 2018
In case you're interested how the auto-detection of colorblind issues in Datawrapper works, I wrote it all down in an interactive blog post https://www.vis4.net/blog/2018/02/automate-colorblind-checking/ https://vis.social/media/JoiAHRvIu0BvxK8Mu8o https://vis.social/media/Jv8iNeTpJVhIjulb_Os
I wrote some code that automatically checks visualizations for non-colorblind safe colors. Here's how it works

Earlier this week we released a new feature at Datawrapper that checks colors used in charts or maps for problems with colorblind readers. If problematic colors are found, a warning sign is shown that

Show threadbriromer
@gka great work, really appreciate the writeup. Kind of surprising that (?) this has not been done before
Feb 9, 2018 at 9:08pmWeb
Show threadGregor AischFeb 16, 2018

@briromer btw, someone told be about a Sketch plugin that seems to be doing sth similarhttp://www.getstark.co/

(can't test it bc there's no Linux version of Sketch)