Living with Colorblindness colors seems to be constantly fluctuating by the world in hidden and disturbed ways.
On the last day, I was booking a journey on the kayak boats, trying to know the dates that are cheaper by looking at the low fare calendar. See any issues?
Oh, sorry – this is what appears to me. You may see it more like this.
I opened the Dev Chrome tools, and changed the cheap fare colors to something that I could already see, and I finally booked my journey. After a few weeks, I will go to the airport. Comfortable, the parking structure added colored lights to help find empty parking places. Or how do they say? They all look at the same thing for me.
It took a little longer, but I found a parking lot. Wait at the gate, perhaps I will kill some time on my phone. But why is this picture of a normal chile pepper at the top of Redit? Or this paper? Oh, right.
For some people, colorblindness is a serious responsibility that closes the doors on functional dreams. It is difficult to become a pilot, a train connector or a pathology specialist if you cannot distinguish between colors in tissue tools, signs or samples. For others, it seriously affects their daily ability to perform their functions, such as surveyors who discover flags or doctors who look at skin diseases or electricians looking for colored wires.
But for me, it is just a lifelong series of unnecessary confusing reactions, which indicates that the world was not designed for people like me.
There is an estimated 350 million people from being in the world. About 8 percent of men, about 1 in 12, have a form of lack of color vision. (It is hereditary, so the numbers will differ from one region to another.) See my mom’s color worse than me, which is very unusual: only about 0.5 percent of women worldwide, about 1 in 200.
I had a lot of conversations about colorblindess with people who are not colored. (Advice for professionals: When you meet a colored person, do not repeat repeatedly things and ask about the color they are.) It seems that the idea of ​​the colorful syndrome itself is difficult to imagine.
Despite what many think, I can see most of the colors! My world is not a black and white movie. Achromatopsia, or total color, is much more rare, and affects about 1 in 30,000 people. (Unless you were born on Pinlerp Atoll in the South Pacific, where 10 percent of the population Inherit))
Ninety -nine percent of people Colorblind, like me, have a form of red and green. It was born with the most common type, Deuteanopia, a genetic mutation that affects the ability of sensitive green cones in my eyes to absorb light.
As a result, some colors of green and red look like each other, approximately the muddy brown color. Other colors, such as purple, blue, orange, bright, or even pink and gray shades, can look very similar. People who have other types of colorblindness will confuse different colors.
For example, at a glance, except for other context evidence such as texture and layer, avocado and peanut elites look as they are for me.
Apparently, this is nausea for people? This is my life.
Since the red and green color is complementary colors against each other on the wheel of the colors, they have become the default colors for each designer who wants to represent opposites: right, liar, lower and low, stop and go.
Uncomfortable, they are also between the two colors that are likely to be mixed by people who suffer from a lack of color vision.
I hope that every designer in the world will understand this and will turn into, for example, red and blue for opposition colors. But I know this will not happen: the cultural meaning is very inherent.
I constantly asked if you had tried Enchroma glasses, and corrective glasses are famous in a A series of viral videos As people tryblind try them and they start crying in the wonder of seeing the grass for the first time.
Despite the noise, their corrective lenses do not actually do so Fix Colorblindness. they correct By increasing the contrast and saturation of colors, turning the color palette into a visible thing, but they cannot help you see colors that you cannot see physically. As a result, the reviews are not equal, as some people love them, but many people who reported that they are doing little but darker or see their vision.
For me, they are not an option at all. Enchroma provides colorblind glasses with prescription lenses, but my prescriptions are very strong and I cannot use.
addition A job in the world When designers can make very slight changes a big difference for many people?
This is the most frustrating thing about these accessible problems – it can be avoided a lot!
In design, in digital and material worlds, the color should not be a single indication of meaning. Simple test: If your work is converted into gray, will it remain usable?
At least, use a tool like colorbrewele to find a safe painting of colors so that you do not end with a design Map like thisWhich seems to me like the American Middle West in the middle of the cleansing.
There is no shortage of colorblindness simulation devices there, free and commercial. It was even built in Google Chrome, Photoshop, Illustrator, etc. But in my experience, none of them represents my vision exactly. ((Daltonins It is the closest.)
This simulation is useful tools, but only relying on them is a monochological approach to access. If there is any case of uncertainty, adding stickers, symbols or textures to every meaningful color for your design will make it accessible to many people, regardless of their ability to perceive the color.
The last time I wrote about my color color was 12 years ago. The good news is that things are improving. More and more, I see that applications and games add COLORBLIND or turn their paintings to be more friendly to Colorblind.
when Between us It was launched in 2018, and it was very difficult for colorblind to play. Each letter model looks as it is, only features color. Players will use colors to define other players in the voice chat. “Green is mite”, someone may say – But which is green?
“Green is mite”, someone may say – But which is green?
In addition, the tasks of the wires in the game, in which the players must re -connect the wires from the same color to its opposite stations, requires seeing regular colors. For me, it was just an experience and a mistake. I felt excluded from the moment when she started playing.
It took years of complaints before the developers added symbols to the colored wires in late 2020. In June 2022 update, an update offered options to display the names of colors on the letters.
In contrast WordelThe viral feeling created by Josh Wardel as a love message for his partner, which was launched in 2021. The game that is shipped with colorblind mode on the first day. It is extremely difficult to see it virtual colors, but Colorblind’s support makes it available immediately.
I asked Wardel what inspired him to add the feature. He replied, “I think it’s simple to do it to make more people feel listed,” but he quickly admitted that he could do more. This was said, Wordel I did not have a set of issues he was unaware, which I feel sorry. “((Wordel It may have been shipped with Colorblind mode, but it was unused for blind players, and the people who share them Wordel The results are closed to those who use screen readers with non -feasible emoji names.)
The ability to access the design is a form of sympathy: trying to reach beyond your personal point of view to try to understand other people who, in this case, literally do not see the world in the same way that you do.
Sufficiently suitable, the accession design is not black and white, and it is one feature that you choose to build or not, but it is a vast and diverse spectrum like the people you design.
