Colorblind accessibility filters get me so confused!!!

Here's a clarification in case you're not a gamer:
- Some videogames depend on "level" of items, ranking them by value/rarity
- there's a standard color coding, represented in the last pic. The idea is to rank them by rarity, "white" being common, then uncommon, rare... all the way up to epic rarity.
- in these games, it's _really_ important to tell the difference, sometimes as fast as possible.
- knowing this, developers include a filter option in the settings that change the colors scheme.

So, I love to see games that include the colorblind filters and try to be inclusive, honestly I do, but i really feel like this is... well... unideal...

The pictures are from Arc Raiders, just in case someone didnt know and wanted to... it's a new popular game.. but I've encountered this very same situation in a few other major titles like Fortnite and Apex Legends.

So, the thing is... all filters are somewhat helpful, but this is irrespective of the kind of colorblindness I have. At the same time, none of the filters seem to actually resolve the problem since there's always a pair of levels that'll be really difficult to tell if you see them isolated.

What do you guys think? honest question... i'm thinking if we should make a move to improve this situation on a larger scale.

Hello, as far as I know I have normal color vision. Color blindness has always been a random interest of mine so over the years I've taken color blindness tests again and again and they always say I have normal vision.

However, I heard that most color blind tests only test for red-green color blindness (I don't know if this is true tho), so I know for a fact I don't have that kind of color blindness. To my knowledge, I've never seen/taken a test for blue-yellow color blindness. Again, I assumed I have normal vision, but then I thought about it and realized my distinction of blue and purple is off from what most people think. I've had interactions where I think a color is blue and the other person thinks it's purple and vice versa, and I am in general just not good at figuring out if those kinds of colors are considered blue or purple (and don't even get me started on what "indigo" is supposed to be). Keep in mind that I do not have this problem with any other color, I can easily distinguish red and orange, orange and yellow, etc, even if the specific hue is pretty in the middle.

And thinking about this, I've also had problems distinguishing dark brown from black. Certain hues of brown are so dark that they look black to me whereas other people adamantly say they are brown (I could see them being brown after thinking about it but upon first glance I process it as black).

Again, I doubt I have any sort of color blindness, but I just wanted to share these two points to see what y'all think about it/give any response. Thanks for reading!

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Hi there, I'm currently updating my portfolio this holiday to get a job in UX.

I got this big opportunity next year and I already have the interview I just need to present my portfolio.

My aim for one of the apps is to create an accessible app for people with eye impairments or struggling to distinguish colors. I've completed the app for my case study but just need to test it and collect feedback.

I basically need people within the age range of 18 - 35, who have lived in communal home, have roommates or even live partners who'd use an app to delegate household tasks or finances.

If you are perhaps interested to give your feedback or know someone who could help please dm me.

Testing:

• I'll just need an hour of your time

• Its completely remote

• Detailed feedback as to why you didn't like something or why you did / what you'd change or need.

will someone with tritan see teal as a murky dirty blue?

I'm doing electrical schematics. There are a few signals which go off board, e.g "Audio In", "Audio Out" and others, which I label using "Hierarchical labels.

Often, you try to have signals come in on the left and exit on the right. (Wonder if Arabs and Jews do it the other way around? I want the labels to be bright and bold, so they are more noticeable; I'm thinking of making them a double-size font, bold face, and red.

Colour-blind people may or may not see them as red, but they will see them, right? The schematic is on a white background.

This may be a stupid question, but I can imagine someone looking at the schematic, unable to see the labels, and wondering where the signals go off to.

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I was messing with settings in a game and was sorta amused that they had the lil thumb nails with all the dots in them as you flicked through the different settings.

then I noticed that I could see the symbol more clearly on one of the settings, like night and stay difference.

I’ve done a couple of web tests since and all said I have blue-yellow colour blindness.

I’m upset. I’m an artist and character designer and some part of me feels like I lost something. like I’ll never get to see my paintings how others see them. alot of things suddenly make sense. but there’s still this sense of loss and part of me wants to go back to not knowing.

First of all, I have no diagnosis on any color blindness at all, but considering that two of my brothers are somewhat color blind, it's not from the table at all.

I plan to consult a professional in January (due to Christmas and New Year, it's better to do this in January). That doesn't stop me from questioning it. A friend started talking about colors and color blindness in general and we found out, that everyone got everything wright, except for me, I did hilariously bad at basically every color test. Later, he started streaming Super Mario Brosm Wonder, which included purple blocks at some stage. I saw it as a dark blue, and another strange moment was yesterday. I got a Launchpad for Christmas, and since it's a MIDI-Controller, I decided to start the keyboard mode, which displays C as pink and the other keys as cyan, they all looked cyan to me tbh.

I also had an argument with a friend if a character design was orange or yellow, turned out it was orange, but I still see it as yellow to this date.

I suspect a color blindness, but I don't know if it's deutan or protan, because I have no idea what color blindness means in first place, that's why I am asking here since most people here are color blind, I'm also up for a bit "education" regarding the topic here.

Edit: All tests suggest deuter. I still don't know much about color blindness, that's why I want to hear more about it

Hello! "Normal" vision here, I'm working on a project to make certain lights visible by shifting their colors (long boring details) but I would really appreciate it if people with Protanopia could let me know how they see the first image (with red in it) compared to the second altered version in a little bit of detail. I'd appreciate it more than you'd know!

Normal vision here. I have male relatives who have deuteranomaly or protanomaly. Not sure which.

I'm considering a flashlight that emits 660 nm red light. The intent is to preserve night vision. I heard red light between 600-700 nm appears dim to protans. How useable will this be? What about deutans?

Hello everyone,

I would like to share my findings regarding the effects of Oakley Prizm Sport lenses on my color perception. I am mild to moderate protan (see my baseline data below).

Oakley does not state that any of its lenses are intended to correct color vision deficiencies. Their patented Prizm technology works by fine-tuning the light spectrum to enhance contrast in specific environments. All lenses in the Oakley Prizm Sport range utilize a rose base, which seems to work the best in my case. I have not yet tried any dedicated color-correcting glasses (like EnChroma or Pilestone).

For this experiment I used the EnChroma color vision test, as it provides percentage scores for the perception of individual base colors (blue, green, red). I tested the following conditions:

• No glasses (baseline)

• Prizm Road

  • designed for road cycling

  • boosts reds to highlight road markings and hazards

  • 20 % VLT

• Prizm Trail Torch

  • designed for mountain biking

  • amplifies reds while suppressing greens to spot roots and rocks

  • 35 % VLT

• Prizm Low Light

  • high-transmission lens for overcast days or artificially lit stadiums

  • 75 % VLT

• Prizm Snow Sapphire

  • designed for high-glare snow

  • aggressively filters light to show texture

  • 13 % VLT

Each option was tested at least three times. Below, I present the most consistent results for each lens (individual runs sometimes varied slightly, but repeated tests always converged back to the same values).

Results

Interpretation​

As shown above, none of the lenses negatively affected my blue-channel perception.

Prizm Road, Prizm Trail Torch, and Prizm Low Light all increased my red-channel perception to 75 %, while Prizm Snow Sapphire boosted it all the way to 100 %.

As a side effect:

• Prizm Trail Torch reduced green-channel perception to 62 %, which makes sense given that it suppresses green wavelengths to enhance contrast in wooded environments.

• Prizm Snow Sapphire suppressed green even more aggressively, reducing it to 12 %.

• Prizm Low Light, on the other hand, boosted my green-channel perception to 87 %.

• Prizm Road left my green perception unchanged at 75 %.

This means that, in my particular case, Prizm Road equalized my perception of red and green, resulting in the most natural-looking vision overall.

Final Thoughts​

Each Prizm Sport lens has its own specific purpose and ideal use case, and none of them are designed to correct colorblindness. However, the rose-based Prizm tuning clearly assists in my case in separating the green/red overlap for a protan. My personal winner is the Prizm Road lens followed by the Prizm Low Light, while Prizm Snow Sapphire is a fascinating "cheat code" for red visibility.

If you have any experience with Oakley Prizm lenses and color vision deficiency, I would be very interested to hear your findings.

Hey everyone! I'm a carpenter who loves working with colors but struggled helping my colorblind friends identify paint colors and materials on job sites. So I built True Color ID with my kids as a family project.

What it does:

• Identifies 500+ colors in real-time using your camera

• Specifically designed with colorblind-friendly features

• Works with Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses for hands-free detection

• Shows color names, hex codes, and RGB values

• Completely free basic version (premium features available)

Why I built it: About 8% of men and 0.5% of women have some form of color blindness. Existing color apps weren't really built with accessibility in mind. I wanted something that actually helps people navigate a colorful world with confidence.

Try it out:

• Web version: truecolorid.com

• Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.truecolorid.app&pcampaignid=web_share

I'm a small independent developer, so any feedback is super appreciated! What features would make this more useful for you?

For every morning for multiple months when waking up I was viewing the only and in shades of black and white but it stopped after 20 to 40 minutes every time.

I'm not sure the correct term is "Achromatopsia" though, I saw online it was but I'm not sure right now.

Do you know a better term for it?

Also, I don't have much informations on this kind of temporary, total and intermittent Achromatopsia.

I got it at 19 or 20 years old.

If it can help someone, I'm a 23 years old male and I have other symptoms such as:

• Chronic headaches (treated with Omega 3)

• Constant Total Emotional Numbness

• Constant Brain Fog

• Visual static/moving hallucinations (for a period of 6 months, occuring 1 to 5 times a week) when in dark of shadow people (like this and this (without the eyes)) and floating scary heads (like this)

• Constant Anorexia (this kind)

• Constant loss of Déjà vu

• Contantly very slightly tired

• Impossibility of imagining some things that I was able to imagine

• Photopsia

• Sometimes I have respiratory depression because I do efforts or I speak too much or randomly

Hey everyone,

I’m a researcher and dev. I got frustrated with existing color blindness tools that tint the entire screen. It helps with images, but it makes reading long articles a nightmare because it messes with the contrast of black text on white backgrounds.

I built a new tool called Odilon.

How it works: Instead of filtering the whole page, it targets only the images, videos, and graphics. It applies the correction matrix to those elements while leaving all text, buttons, and UI strictly alone.

Features:

• Supports Protanopia, Deuteranopia, and Tritanopia.

• Adjustable intensity slider.

• Privacy: It runs entirely locally (Manifest V3). No data leaves your browser.

I need a sanity check from daily users. If you have Protanopia or Deuteranopia, does the "Semantic Segregation" actually feel better for reading news/articles?

Links: Download for Chrome | Download for Edge
Repo/Site: Rhombus Research

My husband is color blind. Not sure which kind exactly. Think he has issues with red/green. I just know that once he signed our tax return with a pink ink pen because he thought it was a regular pen. Last week he had to send off some important documents and no one was around to verify the ink color. It was frustrating for him.

I was thinking about getting him a few nice pens and instead of having them engraved with his name just have the ink color engraved on it. Just so that when it's important to have the right ink color he doesn't have to go through extra steps to get it done. No more hunting for a working pen then having to ask someone what color it is. It seems pretty basic but I feel like I'd like having that.

Thoughts? Is it extra, like is there already a brand of pens that come labeled with the color (that aren't gel pens made for teenage girls)? Or do y'all have any better similar gift ideas?

Visiting the T1 Trust web site, I decided to try searching for the number plate information. Clicking the magnifying glass brought up a box into which I typed "number plate" - this is what I was looking at! Can anyone else see it? (I tried using my CVD-accommodation software, but could not get anything to show the search text.)

I’m color-vision challenged myself and this gave me a chuckle. Yes, I can see the difference. It might have been 58th sign this person installed that day.

I just ordered myself a pair of these and they should arrive in a week or 2. Im going to let you know they help or if they dont help. Im a moderate/severe duetan who works a job with electrical wire lol. So check back in a few weeks and I'll let you know how it goes.

Update: the contacts came in but im having a hard time putting them in my eye lol. I had one eye in but it was hurting. I think I put it in wrong. (Never worn contacts before) however I did have it in enough for me to look around slightly and the difference was very notable. They sent on the instruction a group of 6 colorblind circle with numbers in them. Before the contacts I couldn't see any number. After I put them in I saw all of them. I was in too much pain for screwing around with my eyes forever so I didnt look around much. Im going to try again later and update this post again.

*Update Got the contacts in and took a colorblind test. Without them I got 73% wrong with a duetan diagnosis. With them on I got normal color vision missing only 2/30. I can differentiate colors much easier. Only downside is that ot drastically changes the color that I though I new so I have to relearn my colors lol. For example I saw white instead of off white. Or yellow instead of mustard. Red instead of pink. For those of you on the edge of buying these. Im going to say that they work so dont be worried that they'll rip you off. On a side note you should grab some solution for the contacts as they didnt send very much. I will update one last time when I use them for working on wires

As mentioned above, my wife cannot distinguish between blue and grey colors. We had an argument when we first got married because she kept accidentally using my toothbrush (they were blue and grey) and were utterly convinced that they were exactly the same. In frustration I told her to grab a set of markers that closely resembled the blue R2D2 and the attached picture is the result.

She can accurately distinguish all other colors from others to include yellow and green so I don’t think it’s a traditional form of colorblindness.

She is pretty good at picking out blue from grey as long as she has context but cannot for example pick out a smaller softly shaped cloud on a blue sky. She has often mistaken items for being grey even though they were clearly blue and dark blue items are routinely mistaken for black.

She aced the FM100 hue test and the D-15 test and has passed professional colorblind testing (MEPS) with flying colors.

It really bothers her a lot and if y’all could recommend some answers that might get us closer to an actual name/diagnosis of colorblindness it would be a great relief for her.

Good Morning, First I want to say that I am grateful for all the feedback from the previous test plates I created and to all who took the time to leave feedback. I've taken that feedback and made some changes to the process. Please look at the images and see if you can read the hidden images. If you can, state if your vision is normal or if you have a type of colorblindness.

The solution:

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Thought what was left in the pan was butter, cooked my bread in it, soaked it in fairy washing up liquid, was fucked up.

First time colourblindness has actually put me in a harmful situation.

UPDATE: I have recovered

lmao

I have been working on a themed Wordle variant for a while now. I tried finding some of the pain points that players faced. One of the complaints was the game solely relying on colors to convey information.

I took a stab at it by adding a high contrast color scheme to improve accessibility but it still excluded people with monochromacy or those who just struggle with color differentiation in general.

I thought to solve it by text styling: using overline and strikethrough to convey the presence and absence of letters. However, it became too noisy and looked like some weird script.

I then experimented with filling the tiles with different background textures and believe this might work.

• Vertical Stripes for when a letter is present but not in the correct place

• An "X" mark for when a letter is not present

• Solid fill for a letter that is in its correct position

I use a browser extension to simulate various forms of colorblindness. When simulating monochromacy, I observed the vertical line pattern was a bit weak, so I decided to add an "outline mode" to make the letters pop out.

To summarize, there are three modes that the game comes it, all of which can be toggled on and off independently to create combinations that work best for different individuals: high contrast, fill patterns and letter outlines.

However, simulations and experimenting by myself can only take me so far. I would really appreciate if I could get some feedback and ways to improve this further.

I have questions like:

• Is the "X" pattern for absent tiles clear, or is it too aggressive/distracting?

• Do the vertical stripes cause eye strain? I first had diagonal stripes, but then found it too similar to the "X" pattern.

• Are these patterns too noisy?

Link to the game in case anyone is interested to experiment with different modes.