{"id":441,"date":"2007-05-21T13:34:33","date_gmt":"2007-05-21T13:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/?p=441"},"modified":"2014-08-04T17:10:30","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T17:10:30","slug":"would-somebody-think-of-the-color-blind-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/2007\/05\/21\/would-somebody-think-of-the-color-blind-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Would Somebody Think of the Color Blind People!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/colororacle.png' alt='Color Oracle' style=\"float:right;border:1px solid black;margin:3px;\" \/>If you design stuff please bear in mind that not all of us are blessed with perfect color vision. When you&#8217;re developing your color schemes please make sure they are still readable to the color bind. Don&#8217;t worry, it&#8217;s trivially easy to test this with a great free tool called <a href=\"http:\/\/colororacle.cartography.ch\/\" target=\"_blank\">Color Oracle<\/a>. BTW, even if you don&#8217;t have an actual need for this tool it&#8217;s still fun to play with \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s really nice about this tool is that it&#8217;s available for Mac, Linux and Windows so everyone can play! I&#8217;ve only tested the Mac version and it works like a charm. It adds a simple menu bar icon to select which kind of color blindness to simulate. When you select a scheme your screen colors change so simulate what a color blind person would see. I really like that the change is very temporary, just click the mouse of press a key and everything goes back to normal. You can also set up hot-keys so you can very quickly check your interface works for color blind people with just the press of a single button. There is no excuse now for developing an interface that color blind people can&#8217;t use!<\/p>\n<p>[tags]color blindness, software, freeware, OS X, Windows, Linux[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you design stuff please bear in mind that not all of us are blessed with perfect color vision. When you&#8217;re developing your color schemes please make sure they are still readable to the color bind. Don&#8217;t worry, it&#8217;s trivially easy to test this with a great free tool called Color Oracle. BTW, even if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,16],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-tech","category-programming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t9xK-77","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7525,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions\/7525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}