Is there a way to see the proposed colour changes for someone who isn't colour blind and can't take the test?
Ben On Sunday 07 October 2012 15:54:02 [email protected] wrote: > Hi there, > > I am a geomatics student currently working on my bachelor thesis (in > Germany, not sure how that compares to a bachelor elsewhere). It's about > map design for people with color vision deficiency (color vision > impairment, colorblindness, etc). After wanting to analyse the whole > osm.org Mapnik map style at first, I quickly realised I had to reduce the > scope and thus "only" worked on the main street classes. I carefully > adjusted their colors to keep the main hue (blue, green, red etc) but to > make them identifiable and distinguishable for CVD affected people. > > Now I am testing those (and the original colors in comparison) with an > online survey. To get a good amount of data I need many participants of > course, so if you are affected by color vision related problems, please > participate. Share the link! > > The test takes about 20 minutes, I have seen numbers from 12 to 40 minutes. > I assume it takes longer the more severe the effect is. You can pause > anytime and you can skip questions even though that would not be so great > for me. It presents a _lot_ of map images with simple tasks for > identification of the streets inside. You can take the survey in English > or German. > > The survey: > http://geomatik.enjoys.it/limesurvey/index.php?sid=94319&lang=en&osm > > I will report the findings in the end. If the test validates my new colors > as better, then I will try to get them into the main style. At least that > was my main goal. Let's first see what the results are. > > Thanks for your attention and thanks for helping out, Hannes > > PS: If you want to stalk me, these are my rather neglected OSM profiles > (partly in german I think), I've been around since 2008. Ban potlatch!!!!1 > ;) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:HannesHH > http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/HannesHH > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
