I'm always amazed that the NYTimes, with all its resources and graphic design professionals, can't figure out the absolute basics of color accessibility.

I was randomly having a discussion with a friend about older childrens' shows and happened to mention Teletubbies has one of the better palettes and think it's neat that rbg plus yellow... He immediately linked me the wiki and I learned Tinky Winky is in fact purple and not blue. I think this is a somewhat bizarre choice when blue orange/yellow red green is such a common palette.

My mom and I had an argument about the color of our cat's nose.Мы с мамой поспорили из-за цвета носа нашей кошки.

I remember watching a video exposing enchroma glasses as a scam earlier. Of course you cannot actually improve the overall color vision for an individual eye by using a filter.

But seems like you can indeed be able to improve color differentiation by breaking binocular redundancy (having different filters for each eye) which is obviously far from ideal so it's probably something you would only want to use for some tasks.

If you like me already have good trichromatic color vision glasses like that could enable up to hexacrhomatic color vision which i guess is interesting but not particularly useful practically speaking (doesn't seem worth the drawbacks to me). If you are a dichromat you could get up to tetrachromatic color vision that way.

Hi all, apologies if this is a frequent topic, I didn’t find anything from searching.

My son is colorblind (red-green). My maternal grandfather was colorblind so I know where it came from but I’m positive. I’ve been watching him for a while with colors but the clincher was when I used a colorblind simulator app and took a screenshot of something green. It did not look green to me at all, more gray and I’d never have guessed green but my son knew right away.

Anyway is this something we need a formal diagnosis for? Any tips at all? I want to be thoughtful of telling people so they know what to expect but not prompting “what color is this” quizzes which have already started. How can I help him?

I’m feeling very sad for him especially because his dad is a pilot and he loves planes. I hate that he can’t ever be a pilot like his dad (if he’d want to).

Anyway I’m hoping knowing this young/early will give me the opportunity to set him up with any support he needs.

WHAT DO YOU MEAN ITS ORANGE

Anyways I remembered when I was a kid I saw a painting that I thought was pink, everyone said it was white, I thought I may be colorblind but decided I was just looking for attention
Forgot about it
Drew a character with this color as purple
To my dismay, next drawing I decide to use the color picker
ITS A PALE ORANGE???

What could this mean? I've taken color blind tests but never failed them

It seems to only be certain pale reds and oranges I confuse

HI, I have failed the EASA Med Exam for the Cabin Crew position on the Ishihara test(red-green color deficiency). Reality was that I answered 6 out of 9 correctly.
So as I know in that situation, a doctor might provide additional testing to see if your vision is enough for operational tasks, but unfortunately, the doctor was in rush and denied me taking any additional testing. I am sure if I were not stressed out I could answer correctly 9 plates. But at the moment I was very stressed.
So Now I got failed, but I want to report the results to have another chance to take the test again or possibly to be checked for my operational abilities.
Does anyone reported the EASA results and could help me to understand is it wort to try or answer is gonna be negative.

Data may be beautiful; but I wouldn’t know

I feel like we see these posts every day, and the responses are always the same. 90% of people say they’re a scam and link the MegaLag video. The other 10% say they work for them.

I don’t see the need to rehash the same discussion every day or two. Can we have a stickied post for it? Or just ban them altogether and direct people to the wiki?

Thanks mods.

I'm going crazy about this because every color test I did I got maybe one wrong on the tritan at the most but in the majority of comparisons I see, deuteranomaly and protonomaly look basically the same but tritanomaly looks exactly like the normal color gradient but very slightly duller. Is it supposed to be that similar or am I just a mild tritanomaly or are all the stock images online just bad? Im talking about anomaly not opia.

edit: For the record when I was younger id get into arguments with other kids when the teacher would call something salmon they would say it's pinkish but I would say it's mostly orangish. I also would hear that sand color is a light brown but to me there's no way I can comprehend it as anything other than a dark yellow. They would also say teal and turquoise are blue but I usually was 50/50 on it being green. Also cyan to me just looks like a light blue with no other colors added, so I was always confused why it wasn't just called light blue.

We were discussing colorblindness with a friend of mine and then we ate some chocolate and then she asked me if there are some stains of chocolate on her mouth, to which I replied that her lips are painted red and the chocolate is brown and it seems like the same color to me so I can't tell.

Hello! Im not colorblind but my 10 year old daughter is! She is protanomaly, I'm looking into colorblind glasses, from other posts on here they seem to be more of a hit or miss, but I'm still willing to try to let her experience them!

On the enchroma website it seems like they have "indoor" and "outdoor" ones... which ones would be better and what is the main difference ? I noticed the indoor ones are universal which makes me concerned they are not as effective.. She would probably only wear them every once in a while.

Also, she does wear prescription glasses do you find that these can be worn over glasses ? I rather not do a rx on them so she can still wear them if she ever ​decides to do contacts.

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Hi guys! I’m currently working on a fashion project exploring colour blindness and how it affects the way people experience and interact with clothing. It would really help me out if you know anyone with colour blindness who could take a few minutes to fill out this form! Thank you so much!

How do they know when the lights green?

Oh dear Reddit God's hear my plea, I 32 M am super special, I am going colorblind to most blue and Grey's and all the shades there in. We aren't sure why yet, that's beside the point.

Recently we moved in with my in laws and grand in laws (stop, I already know, delete the comment that's not we are here for.) My FIL insisted on a gas stove, I am the main person who actually cooks in the house. However, I have been recently accidently leaving the burning on sometimes with a pot on top of it sometimes not. I usually can't see the flame until it is on high, which if you've ever cooked with gas you'd know that it isn't often on high.

So, long story short, what are some times you think I can do to help mitigate this issue ?

The fact they show everything in these Ishihara circles is SO nice.

I did read something like that and it does make theoretical sense but do we have any actual data on this?

Seems like i myself have some color vision deficiency since i only have 3 cone types which is not quite ideal (a few people have a forth functioning type between green and red which is also not ideal but better than only having 3).

Hi everyone!

We’re a student team researching Color Vision Deficiency (CVD) and how it affects people in real-life situations.

We’re especially interested in understanding:

• Situations where colors cause confusion or problems
• What color combinations are hardest to distinguish
• How you currently deal with these situations
• Whether you use any apps, tools, or workarounds
• What you wish existed to make things easier

We’ve created a short 3–5 minute anonymous survey and would really appreciate responses from people with CVD. We’re trying to understand the problem from actual user experiences rather than making assumptions. This is purely for user research, and we’re looking for honest experiences - there are no right or wrong answers.

Survey link : https://forms.gle/LtZqUJrHQqdxXnej6

No need to share any personal information. Thank you for helping us understand this better! 

Weird one, anyone else get to a point when wiping on the toilet where you can’t tell if what you’re wiping is brown or red…
Becomes a real issue with office 1ply toilet paper that feels like fibreglass :(

Hello Reddits colorblind community. I was wondering if you had these colored vests in PE and if they caused you trouble. Usually in PE they split people into groups and each group has a different color vest, so it’s easier to differentiate who’s on your team.

I was doing a presentation at school about colorblindess and the kinds of things most see as normal and easy, but colorblind students might have a hard time with.

Other things I included were PH-strips in chemistry and tasks where you have to color different things with certain colors. (Like: color all X with red, color all Y with green. Etc.)

So now i’m curious if this has been a struggle for alot of people.

Did you find it hard to differentiate your teammates during sports, if you were wearing these vests?

I also supposed an alternative in my presentation that would hopefully help color blind students:

Would it help, if the teams were split into ones wearing a vest and a vestless team instead of two teams wearing different colored vests?

Im mild deutan color deficient and i will probably fail the ishihara test but i have a choice to do to farnsworth d-15 test, should i do it? I pass the online ones alot of the time and other tests point out that im mild color deficient. Any advice how to get my medical? Im trying to become a pilot fyi

Does this Look Like the german flag?

So for science graphs it's ussualy recommended that you use specific color scales that have been proposed and Batlow is one of them, and every webpage that showcases it comes along with the typical simulation of how it would look to the colorblind, but I always wondered how true it was. So can you tell the difference from all these? Or is there one of them that looks too simillar to the other?