- From: Matthew R. Moore <mrmoore@truman.edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 16:10:13 -0500
- To: "Lois Wakeman" <lois@lois.co.uk>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
- Cc: <immelie@hotmail.com>
When we had a seminar on accessibility, one of my friends here at the University (who is color deficient) mentioned that until a week or two before the meeting, he didn't realize that MS Word underlined mis-spelled words in red and grammatical errors in green (when those options are turned on). Another example along the same vein that we discussed is when form validators change the color of the text on the form to a certain color (i.e. red) and say that "fields in red must be completed" - if someone can't distinguish red for some reason, how can they know that the form field is required? I can't speak for how accurate it is, but at http://www.vischeck.com/vischeck/ there is a mechanism to test how your site would look to individuals with certain color vision deficiences. Matt ******************************************** Matthew R. Moore | mailto:mrmoore@truman.edu Human Resources, Truman State University 106 McClain Hall, 100 East Normal, Kirksville, MO 63501 Phone: 660.785.4031 - Fax: 660.785.7520 http://hr.truman.edu | http://businessoffice.truman.edu -----Original Message----- From: w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Lois Wakeman Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 5:17 AM To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org Subject: Colour blindness and accessibility Someone contacted me via my web site and asked if I could give any examples of how colour blindness affects people in their work - not just web sites, but office and industrial equipment etc. Is there anyone here who can provide her with some practical examples? If so, please contact Ingeborg Marie Dehs Thomas at immelie@hotmail.com. See below for the original email. Lois Wakeman http://lois.co.uk http://siteusability.com http://communicationarts.co.uk
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