There is a free plugin for photoshop which will show an image as a colorblind person would see it. The homepage is http://www.vischeck.com/ They also give some info and links to info about colorblindness. Another interesting website is http://newmanservices.com/colorblind/default.asp where you can paste html and it will show you how the page will look to a color blind person. The numbers I have seen are around 10% of the male population and 0.5-1% of females (it is a recessive gene on the X chromosome). glenn
On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Tarus Balog wrote: > > Jeremy Portzer said: > > On Sun, 2002-10-06 at 19:46, Tanner Lovelace wrote: > >> > >> As far as the side progress indicators are concerned, do you have any > >> numbers on how many people are red-green color blind *enough so that > >> the side bar is useless to them*? Also, like I said > >> before, the sidebar, while nice, is not integral to the functioning of > >> the installer. You can do everything in the installer without having > >> to worry about the sidebar. > > > > A large number of people are red-green colorblind; I've seen anything > > from 8% to 12% of Caucasian males. Anecdotally, my father is > > colorblind, the guy across the hall is, and so is my next-door > > neighbor. (For females it's only about 0.5% of the population due to > > the X-linked nature of red-green colorblindness.) Almost all "real > > world" interfaces, such as traffic signals and signs, retail packaging, > > etc, is designed with this in mind. There are plenty of other colors to > > choose from! > > It's funny. OpenNMS has an issue in its GUI that affects those with > red/green color blindness. We haven't really had time to address it, but > we need to. I used to give training courses on OpenNMS, and the usual > class size was around 10 people - almost always male. In *every* class I > had at least one person with red/green color blindness. > > -T > > -- > Tarus Balog > Consultant > Sortova Consulting Group, http://www.sortova.com > +1-919-696-7625 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > _______________________________________________ > TriLUG mailing list > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ: > http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html > -- Glenn Hennessee Box 8204 Dept of Chemistry NC State University Raleigh, NC 27695-8204 (919) 515-2947 Fax: (919) 515-8909 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
