RE: Colour blindness and accessibility

S far as I know only some colourblindness is a Y chromosone thing
thought it is mostley males who are affected.

It is a major diability for some people.  For example in australia it is
a legitimate reason for exclusion from jobs as a technician etc in
electronics because of the iability to read colour codes.
It has also been held in court to be legitimate to refuse jobs as a
security guard to people with colourblindness as it is considered that
they would not be able to describe such things as the colour of cars
(automobiles)

Harry Woodrow

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From: w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org] On
Behalf Of Matthew Smith
Sent: Thursday, 1 May 2003 7:11 AM
To: WAI Interest Group
Subject: Re: Colour blindness and accessibility



Hi All

> http://www.vischeck.com/vischeck/ http://colorfilter.wickline.org/

Thanks to James and Matt for these - very handy additions to my test
suite.

Before I had to rely on getting a colour-blind person to look at the
object of my interest and that, of course, is only one form of
colour-blindness.

Is it true that colour-blindness is a Y-chromosone only thing?

Cheers

M

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Matthew Smith
IT Consultant - KBC, South Australia
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