How does your website look to the color blind?

If you are designing websites with accessibility in mind then you may want to see how your website would look to the color blind before you actually launch it.  Check out this cool tool called the Colorblind Web Page Filter which enables you to enter your url and see your website through the eyes of a color blind user.

New blog theme to suit colour blind readers

Whilst doing my research on colour blindness and the internet, I realised that the WordPress theme I initially chose was all wrong! It contained orange and green text – a nightmare for some colour blind users.  Therefore I have updated my theme to be more black and white which is one of the recommendations I came across at All Web Design Blog, a great blog resource that highlights some good basic key points to remember when designing websites for the colour blind.

Are you colour blind?

Hello there – my name is Sarah Allan and I’m a web design student in Northern NSW, Australia. I have started this blog to document my research findings on the subject Designing Websites for the Colour Blind. This research is required for a college assignment.

Did you know that colour blindness affects males much more than females? Approximately 8% of males are affected by colour blindness while only about 0.4% of females are affected. In the US that equates to about 7% of the male population (or 10.5 million males).

Are you colour blind?  Take this colour blind test to find out.