Is color blindness considered a disability?

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: Mookow
Curious, but how many figures can those who are (and those who arent) colorblind see in the bottom two panels of this?

4 on the left, 2 on the right.

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: CaffeineAndStuff
If you want to see how webpages look with certain types of colour blindness check out
Vischeck

Oh wow - the main red I'm using on my site turns to a crummy brown. But the second shade of red I use at the bottom stays what it is supposed to be.

Red/green blind peoples, can you look at antisource.com and tell me if the main header really looks brown to you?

 

[CaffeineAndStuff]

Originally posted by: SagaLore

Originally posted by: CaffeineAndStuff
If you want to see how webpages look with certain types of colour blindness check out
Vischeck

Oh wow - the main red I'm using on my site turns to a crummy brown. But the second shade of red I use at the bottom stays what it is supposed to be.

Red/green blind peoples, can you look at antisource.com and tell me if the main header really looks brown to you?

No need to worry unless you have bad contrast between colours, i.e. if you can't tell the diffence between 2 adjacent colours.

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

Originally posted by: SagaLore

Originally posted by: CaffeineAndStuff
If you want to see how webpages look with certain types of colour blindness check out
Vischeck

Oh wow - the main red I'm using on my site turns to a crummy brown. But the second shade of red I use at the bottom stays what it is supposed to be.

Red/green blind peoples, can you look at antisource.com and tell me if the main header really looks brown to you?

It's either red or brown, I can't tell which.

Does that help?

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: SagaLore
I'm practically night blind. I have trouble seeing anything past my headlights on roads without street lights. Almost hit a deer a few weeks ago, it's a good thing my wife freaked out so I could slow down, it wasn't but 10 feet in front of me before I could see it.

umm...maybe you should let her drive at night?

I knew a guy who had red/green colorblindness, he could drive fine since green is always at the bottom, but he couldn't fly since you can't tell whether a plane is coming towards you or going away...

http://www.vischeck.com/vische...IP=vischeck.homeip.net

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

Originally posted by: jagec

Originally posted by: SagaLore
I'm practically night blind. I have trouble seeing anything past my headlights on roads without street lights. Almost hit a deer a few weeks ago, it's a good thing my wife freaked out so I could slow down, it wasn't but 10 feet in front of me before I could see it.

umm...maybe you should let her drive at night?

I knew a guy who had red/green colorblindness, he could drive fine since green is always at the bottom, but he couldn't fly since you can't tell whether a plane is coming towards you or going away...

http://www.vischeck.com/vische...IP=vischeck.homeip.net

You know, that green always on the bottom trick only works if it is bright enough for you to tell where that light is in perspective to the others.

 

[cucumber]

Originally posted by: virtueixi

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001

Originally posted by: virtueixi

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001
I didn't realize color blindness was so common....in fact, the man I bought my car from two weeks ago apparently is color blind too. :Q

Real color blindness is really rare. I mean where you can't any colors. Red/green is fairly common (20% of population) it just means you don't see certain shades/transitions. Really not that bad, shouldn't effect your life drasticly.

This is obviously a foreign concept to me as I'm not color blind myself - but, at the risk of sounding stupid - when you have something like red/green color blindness, what do you see? Do those colors both appear the same, like some combination of the two, I guess?

The colors do appear the same except for certain shades/transitions. For example, I might confuse orange and green and such, depending on the exact color.

This is a pretty good description of it.

I too have Red Green color blindness. I also have trouble with other colors related to red and green. Sometimes green does look gray too. There have been a few times when buying clothes that I wasn't sure if a shirt was gray or green.

To answer SynthDude2001 , I do see a color, I just can't tell which one it is (if that makes any sense .... ) It doen't look like black+ white or grey. (unless it's green of a certain shade...)

 

[SynthDude2001]

Originally posted by: cucumber

Originally posted by: virtueixi

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001

Originally posted by: virtueixi

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001
I didn't realize color blindness was so common....in fact, the man I bought my car from two weeks ago apparently is color blind too. :Q

Real color blindness is really rare. I mean where you can't any colors. Red/green is fairly common (20% of population) it just means you don't see certain shades/transitions. Really not that bad, shouldn't effect your life drasticly.

This is obviously a foreign concept to me as I'm not color blind myself - but, at the risk of sounding stupid - when you have something like red/green color blindness, what do you see? Do those colors both appear the same, like some combination of the two, I guess?

The colors do appear the same except for certain shades/transitions. For example, I might confuse orange and green and such, depending on the exact color.

This is a pretty good description of it.

I too have Red Green color blindness. I also have trouble with other colors related to red and green. Sometimes green does look gray too. There have been a few times when buying clothes that I wasn't sure if a shirt was gray or green.

To answer SynthDude2001 , I do see a color, I just can't tell which one it is (if that makes any sense .... ) It doen't look like black+ white or grey. (unless it's green of a certain shade...)

Interesting! ( )

I think I've learned something, at least.

 

[Yo Ma Ma]

Originally posted by: BigJ
If you're doing an activity that involves colors and your colorblind, more then likely they will provide assistance for you. In Physics last year, we viewed the color spectrum with certain gases and I was not held responsible for the color part, the teacher gave me the answers.

In virtueixi's case, most likely he will be supplied with a chromatograph dog from the federal program.

 

[Wahsapa]

Originally posted by: Mookow
Curious, but how many figures can those who are (and those who arent) colorblind see in the bottom two panels of this?

its a playstation controller!!

 

[screw3d]

Hmm.. friend of mine couldn't get into Navy SEALs because he was color blind.. sucks to be him I guess.

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf

Originally posted by: SagaLore

Originally posted by: CaffeineAndStuff
If you want to see how webpages look with certain types of colour blindness check out
Vischeck

Oh wow - the main red I'm using on my site turns to a crummy brown. But the second shade of red I use at the bottom stays what it is supposed to be.

Red/green blind peoples, can you look at antisource.com and tell me if the main header really looks brown to you?

It's either red or brown, I can't tell which.

Does that help?

So does it look bad?