{"id":4167,"date":"2010-08-05T20:03:08","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T18:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/?p=4167"},"modified":"2010-06-05T20:34:12","modified_gmt":"2010-06-05T18:34:12","slug":"color-blind-this-is-for-everybody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/05\/color-blind-this-is-for-everybody\/","title":{"rendered":"Color blind: This is for everybody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When designing web sites, many graphic artists over-design forgetting a little-known fact: Around 5% or male Europeans or Caucasians have some sort of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Color_blind\">color blindness<\/a>. For most of them it is only a small hindrance, but in some conditions it can become quite annoying. For example, when a web designer relied too heavily on color and made the web site nearly impossible to use by this large segment of the population.<\/p>\n<p>I found a good web site that will help you determine if you are color blind and which will support web designers trying to make their web sites better: <a href=\"http:\/\/wearecolorblind.com\/\">WeAreColorBlind.com<\/a>. They are even providing patterns that show how best to use colors in this context.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wearecolorblind.com\/category\/patterns\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/color_blind_patterns.jpg\" alt=\"color_blind_patterns\" title=\"color_blind_patterns\" width=\"600\" height=\"475\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/color_blind_patterns.jpg 617w, https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/color_blind_patterns-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/color_blind_patterns-600x475.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/color_blind_patterns-150x119.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you want more support, I also recommend a visit to <a href=\"http:\/\/enably.com\/chrometric\/\">Chrometric<\/a>, a web site where you will be able to freely download a tool to test your web site against various kinds of color blindnesses (you know that not all people have the same kind of insensitivity to colors, don&#8217;t you?) and allow you to test various solutions or improvement you may have designed.<\/p>\n<p>For example, my other web site, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.YLovePhoto.com\/en\/\">www.YLovePhoto.com<\/a> as seen by 6% of the male population:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/ylovephoto_for_color_blind.jpg\" alt=\"ylovephoto_for_color_blind\" title=\"ylovephoto_for_color_blind\" width=\"580\" height=\"468\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/ylovephoto_for_color_blind.jpg 1159w, https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/ylovephoto_for_color_blind-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/ylovephoto_for_color_blind-600x485.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/ylovephoto_for_color_blind-150x121.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/ylovephoto_for_color_blind-768x620.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When designing web sites, many graphic artists over-design forgetting a little-known fact: Around 5% or male Europeans or Caucasians have some sort of color blindness. For most of them it is only a small hindrance, but in some conditions it can become quite annoying. For example, when a web designer relied too heavily on color [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,52,38,4],"tags":[243,1199],"class_list":["post-4167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-create-a-web-site","category-html-and-css","category-new-web-site","category-web","tag-color","tag-color-blind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}