accommodating people who are color blind

There's an article in the new webtechniqes magazine, august 2000, by chuck 
newman "Considering the color-blind)(the paper version... it's not yet on 
the web)  It gets quantitative.  Among the tools it refers to is

http://www.vischeck.com/

http://www.visibone.com/colorblind/

There's also a couple of articles

F. Viénot, H. Brettel and J. D. Mollon (1999) Digital video colourmaps for 
checking the legibility of displays by dichromats. Color Research 
and  Application 24, 243-252.

and

H. Brettel and F. Viénot (1999) Web design for the colour-blind user, in L. 
W. MacDonald and M. R. Luo (eds.) Color Imaging: Vision and Technology 
Chichester: John Wiley, pp. 55-71.


I've written Dr. Brettel for more info.

Len
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Leonard R. Kasday, Ph.D.
Institute on Disabilities/UAP, and
Department of Electrical Engineering
Temple University 423 Ritter Annex, Philadelphia, PA 19122

kasday@acm.org
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The WAVE web page accessibility evaluation assistant: 
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Received on Wednesday, 12 July 2000 12:57:05 UTC