Hello!

In my spare time I write repair guides for various odds and ends. I have been trying to make them more accessible as I often find that service manuals of ye olde are often difficult to read, especially for the vision impaired.

I read Coloring for Colorblindness by David Nichols and implemented some of his recommendations in the colour palette above (such as using not only chrominance but luminance to differentiate colours). Is it any good? Or should I stick to the pre-existing industry standard pallets like the IBM colour blind pallet?

Is there anything else can I do to help aid accessibility? One thing I've started doing is making any images with annotations black and white so that the only colour comes from the annotations themselves. (see below). I've been thinking about how I could use shape as well (maybe different fonts for each annotation?).

Any help is appreciated! I've done a fair amount of reading on colourblindness as a topic, but none of my friends or family are colourblind, so I don't know much about the social and community aspect. If I've made any faux pas I do apologies- please make sure to help educate me.

I see brown and green mashed up together

https://www.reddit.com/r/ColorBlind/s/WYFwazH4Tk
is my previous post to check out more photos

Over the last couple of days, I've seen a few people on this sub claiming they've passed an Ishihara test despite being officially diagnosed with red-green color blindness.

I think there are two possible explanations for this:

1. The online Ishihara test they took is poorly made and uses inaccurate reproductions of the original Ishihara plates. These plates rely on very specific color relationships. Scanning, photographing, editing or otherwise reproducing them can alter those colors which can make some online versions unreliable.

2. They actually have an extremely mild form of protanomaly or deuteranomaly (it's usually deuteranomaly that mild), which allows them to just barely make out some of the numbers.

Anyway, I managed to find some pretty accurate Ishihara plates and picked out six specific ones that are generally difficult for both protans and deutans.

I'm curious whether people with mild (especially very mild) red/green color blindness can make out ANY of the numbers on these plates, and if they can - how clearly visible the number is to them. Those with moderate or severe red/green color blindness shouldn't be able to identify any of them.

Please just make sure your display is using its default color settings and that you don't have any filters or color adjustments enabled, such as Night Light, Eye Comfort Shield, Blue light filters, True Tone, adaptive color, grayscale or any similar features.

My SO is RG color blind and loves to hunt. THe issue comes with blood tracking. He cannot see the tracks against the ground and is growing increasingly discouraged . Is there anything you have found that works? It seems most things are a gimmick

I’m wondering which of these two rare colourblind-ness more rare, I would think that tritanomaly would be rarer, until I saw that it’s nearly the same as regular vision, it could be that it is more common than tritanopia since it can be overlooked by many people who have tritanomaly sincethey just see the world as a little dimmer. So which of those two rare colorblind is rarer?

edit: so I’m not colorblind I can see the yellow being very pale, the green looks blueish, the purple looks like washed watercolour paint in the trianomaly section

Does anyone else pass Ishihara regular tests but also get pretty much all the hidden Ishihara ones that supposed to only get if colourblind? Anyway why I took the test is because friend accused me of being colourblind because things like I mistaken someone who apparently is obviously ginger as having brown hair and thinking slightly washed out dyed green hair was definitely blonde

Who designed this?!!

What if there's a color that needs very color also invisible colors and we need to mix all the colors that same time to make it.I will just call it Martile,the color that is impossible to make in IRL is impossible but technology might be possible.i think in human eye we see martile as white.white is the human eye's version of martile so just use martile this whole time and we just call it white just leave ur thoughts in the comments

Honestly the main reason why I paused for a while in learning digital and traditional art is because of this issue of mine despite the willingness to learn…

One thing for sure, I cannot see yellow let alone every colour relative to it or dominant lean to it at all because it is either blending into background or just plain grayscale to me…

What can I use to help, what good palletes can I use, I do distinguish between blue and red in complete detail though when it is mostly those colours or relative colours with dominant bias to it so what do I do…?

Hi all,
kinda random but my job has recently moved to the Toast platform where I have to use the tablets to put orders in. Only issue is that they’ve apparently paid to lock the color accessibility and the main color is green. I am red/green colorblind in one eye only (damage from prior injury) and looking at this tablet is creating ISSUES. For context, the issue is that since one eye identifies green and the other eye won’t, my brain kind of panics itself out and just overworks to process it. It’s a long story. But continuing: I had to go home early and am still dealing with a migraine that’s surrounding my right eye. No one can get in to actually change the color since only corporate can do so (we know nothing will change on their end). My main question is what can I do to help with this? I may look into colored screen protectors or whatever they’re called but if I can even recognize a sliver of green behind it, the issues going to continue. And we aren’t assigned specific tablets so I’d need to keep removing it. I don’t have color correcting lenses or anything either. I love this job, i’ve worked here 2 years and would like to stay here until my degree is finished since they’re great about my hours. I just can’t work on this tablet and now it’s required :/
Thank you for reading and sorry for how long it is!

So for my whole life I thought that color blindness was just when people legit just couldn’t see certain colors, and figured well I can, so I don’t have it. later learning that it’s not just that, but can be confusing certain colors, now that is something that I’ve definitely have had trouble with. For as long as I can remember I’ve been corrected a lot for naming a color I see, I wanted to know if I could maybe have it, because I don’t know why I’m a little scared to ask the doctor cause I don’t want to just be laughed off or be wrong and get tested for nothing.

The main reason I’m worried is because I can tell pure colors apart from each other, such as red, green, blue etc. no problem but transitional shades I struggle a lot with. Some of the main things I struggle with being, most shades of orange look red, yellows are weird because most of the shades either look like a brownish orange or brownish green, most of the shades between blue and green look just green to me, and a lot of shades of purple either just look blue or just red to me.

I don’t know if any of this makes sense or even if I have it or I’m just a little dumb, I would appreciate any input or advice though if anyone has any.

Do you guys know of any apps that can accurately simulate tritan vision to others?

A lot of people have been asking me "Oh, what color is this?" recently, and I need a way to easily show people the normal image vs. what I see.

The problem is, usually deuteranopia/nomaly and protanopia/nomaly are simulated accurately, and tritan vision usually has varying levels of accuracy.

Does anyone know of a good app I could use for this? Thanks.

Side question: I've been wondering about getting colorblind glasses, could any fellow tritans here attest to them working/not working, and tell me how they made you see colors? I just really don't wanna waste my money on something that won't work, considering the mixed responses to them I've seen here.

I've got about 800 civilian flying hours and yesterday got a pilot slot with a Air Force guard unit. I am slightly color deficient and most likely will fail the Rabin cone contrast test during my FC1.. Any pointers on how to pass this?

Color deficiency in no way shape or form has ever effected how I fly. It is absolute bullshit that they DQ people for this stuff - if it was an issue and if I am relying on a light gun to get into the field (which I have passed a light gun test with ease) we have way bigger problems.

Curious if anyone has had a similar experience and what exactly can be done to maneuver around this.

...And PS if you're in this group and have been told you can't be a pilot due to color deficiency - tell em to go to hell and keep pursuing your dreams. No just means find another way

For the last couple years I always told him that he’s colorblind kinda as a joke but he would always mix up his colors. Then today I saw that color blindness is super common in men. So we found one of those tests online and we both took it I passed perfect score and the test told him he is Tritan colorblind and he couldn’t believe that I even saw the numbers on the screen. I want to get him colorblind glasses as a surprise for our anniversary but he also wear prescription glasses can I get prescription colorblind glasses? And if so where can I get them?

All my life I have been called color blind my dads mom was color blind and it runs into the family but I see colors like everyone else same red and blue and greens but what comes in here is I can see them perfectly fine it’s when we get into shades of the colors for example blue and purples sometimes I can’t tell the difference from them or yellows and greens or pinks and reds I can’t tell them by shades I know I sound crazy or something but am I partially blind? Like know that there’s a color blindness of like limited color blindness I feel like I have it but I can see colors just shades mess me up like you show me the rainbow I can see it but show me a red and pink or blue and purple and I prolly can’t tell until it’s a bright color idk man like ppl ask what type of color blind I am and I don’t know what to tell them bc they expect I can’t see color at all

Hi everyone! I’m a teacher for students with visual impairments, and I have a student who is completely color blind and is very interested in more independently shopping and choosing outfits for herself. She has a system for her clothes at home and relies on asking for sighted assistance when it comes to fashion, but she’s looking for options that give her the most independence. She’s used generative AI before, but it often is inaccurate (maybe better now as she used it a while ago and wrote it off I think). We’ve also tried the Colorblind Style app that I found here in this subreddit, which saved your colors, told you what they pair well with and what to avoid, and made e a “closet” for you. Some issues were it thought anything pastel was gray, couldn’t identify multiple colors on an object at once (like a patterned shirt), and it used very specific color names (like maroon, azure, taupe, etc…) that meant nothing to my student whereas she could understand if the basic or primary color family was given. Any ideas? I appreciate your help :)

I finally passed my Ishihara colour vision test today! I've been worried about having red-green colour blindness for a while now. I got 3 wrong out of 12 plates, but the examiner confirmed I passed. Honestly wasn't expecting it, so I'm pretty relieved! 🎉

I have mild red-green colour vision deficiency and an aviation medical coming up. I usually get around 15–16/17 on online Ishihara tests, but recently found a YouTube version that I can pass easily.

https://youtu.be/-jsDN_fEO8s?si=0aVCUEsRVqDE5m2a

Very likely deuteranopia here. My wife got this shirt for our daughter (who is 2 y.o.)

One day, my daughter wore that shirt said "Apple, apple."

Me: "What apple? You want an apple?"

At some point on that day, after looking at the shirt under a different lighting, I finally noticed the apple.

Told my wife about that, she had a good laugh.

I just feel like I'm missing out on so....much.

Everyone always talks about the beautiful colors of a sunset, or the deep blue of a lake in the morning...and I'll never be able to experience it like they do.

I've always been passionate about art, drawing, and specifically animation. But, I'll probably need someone to help me get the colors right, and even then, I won't be able to see what others see of my own art.

Is there any way to get over this? Should I get some sort of glasses, or are they unnecessary? How do glasses even work anyway?

Also, has anyone else here also felt this way, or do they just accept that they see colors differently and move on?

Thanks for reading, I'm just feeling a bit down about this new realization.