Information About Color and Color Blindness

General Information

KODAK Digital Color Theory - What color is and how it displays
www.kodak.com/US/en/digital/dlc/book3/chapter2/

Color Matters - a definitive source for color information, books, research, design and more...
http://www.colormatters.com/entercolormatters.html

Colour Order Systems in Art and Science (English, Français, German)
http://www.colorsystem.com/

Color and Design

Christine Ridgen's page on Safe Web Colours for Colour-Deficient Vision
http://more.btexact.com/ces/colours/

Safe colours - Transformations (Hex) - This table holds the standard 216 colour web palette, with an approximation of the hues seen by colour deficient dichromats
http://more.btexact.com/ces/colours/colours1.htm

Designing for the Color-Challenged: A Challenge by Thomas G. Wolfmaier
http://www.internettg.org/newsletter/mar99/accessibility_color_challenged.html

A-Prompt Project - Links
http://aprompt.snow.utoronto.ca/links.htm

Color Visibility Test Program
http://aprompt.snow.utoronto.ca/ColorVisibilityProgram.html
Software

Colour Selection and the Visually Impaired - A Design Guide for Building Refurbishment
http://www.rdg.ac.uk/~keswrims/rbw.html

Notes on Design of Color Test
http://astro.temple.edu/~kasday/color/colortable.html

Using Color on the Web
http://www.projectcool.com/developer/gzone/color/

Essential Colour Checklists For Web Design
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/1126/1

Color Blindness Resources

Definitions of Color Blindness

Living with Color Blindness

These sites are particularly interesting, as they are designed by people who are color blind, and contain their perspectives as well as additional links:

http://members.home.net/mmelnick/color/color.htm

http://www.delamare.unr.edu/cb

Color Deficient Vision - provides some information on color blindness and how web designers can choose colors that are safe to use for those with color deficient vision:
http://www.visibone.com/colorblind

Information about Achromatopsia and instruction of students with color blindness:
http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro98/202s98-paper2/DeCastro2.html

Cautions regarding products marketed to address color blindness:
http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/ANSWERS/ANS00990.html

What Teachers, School Nurses and Parents Should Know about Being Color Blind:
http://members.aol.com/nocolorvsn/color4.htm

Industrial and Occupational Color Vision Requirements
http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/8018/Industrial.html

Color Blindness Tests and Simulations

Ishihara Color Blindness Tests and Simulators:
http://www.toledo-bend.com/colorblind/Ishihara.html

Vischeck color blindness simulator
http://www.vischeck.com/

Safe Web Colours for Colour-Deficient Vision
http://more.btexact.com/ces/colours/

Color Perception Issues - excellent reference, with examples
http://www.firelily.com/opinions/color.html

Lighthouse Color Contrast and Partial Sight
http://www.lighthouse.org/color_contrast.htm

Color Blindness Check
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/8833/coloreye.html
No additional software or equipment needed

First Site on Color Blindness
http://colorvisiontest.com

WhatColor - a PC Toll for Colorblind People
http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA011243/wcolor_e.htm
Software that names the color on the screen that is pointed to.

Color Blindness Check
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/8833/coloreye.html

Color Blindness and Color Discrimination
http://www.stcsig.org/usability/topics/colorblind.html
Resources from the Usability Interest Group of the Society for Technical Communication

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