Guest Post by Kristine [lizbeth_laila@yahoo.com]
This article in the Colourlovers blog tackles how certain websites look to color blind individuals. In this blog, the author posted several popular websites and showed how differently these websites looked to color blind individuals and those with normal vision. Interestingly enough, he also posted this Color Blind Web Page Filter where it filters out colors according to the type of color deficiency an individual has.
Being color blind, I naturally couldn't see how well the Filter worked, so I asked one of my web designer friends to try it out for me. While we tested some familiar websites on the Filter, he commented that he never thought the Google logo could look so dull.
He then realized that he could unconsciously be making his websites a little hard to view to certain color blind individuals, and began testing his sites through the filter to make sure it was readable to every viewer, color blind or not.
All-in-all, I'm glad to know that the plight of color blind web users is getting a lot of exposure these days. I hope that means websites will start to look better and better for everyone.
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