Comments on: In defense of the color-blind user http://blog.paulpehrson.com/2006/07/03/in-defense-of-the-color-blind-user/ Paul Pehrson's technical writing blog Sat, 22 Nov 2008 12:38:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Dave http://blog.paulpehrson.com/2006/07/03/in-defense-of-the-color-blind-user/#comment-1355 Dave Thu, 06 Jul 2006 15:12:08 +0000 http://blog.paulpehrson.com/2006/07/03/in-defense-of-the-color-blind-user/#comment-1355 As the person mentioned in Paul's example with the red "X," I have to say a profound "Well done!" Most people have no idea how complex and frustrating the world can be when color is not taken into consideration. So many design decisions are based without consideration of color. For example (and this is my personal pet-peeve), I cannot tell the difference between the red and green squiglies in Word to save my life. There are the EXACT same color to me. And that's just the beginning. So, thanks for the defense, Paul. Oh, one more thing to consider, estimates put the population of color-blind users at between 8 and 20% of the male population. I go with the generally standard 12%. That means that more than 1 out of every 10 male users will have problems with the colors of your designs. Is that really a population you want to alienate? Yeah, didn't think so.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('1355','Dave'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('1355','Dave','As the person mentioned in Paul\'s example with the red \"X,\" I have to say a profound \"Well done!\" \r\n\r\nMost people have no idea how complex and frustrating the world can be when color is not taken into consideration. So many design decisions are based without consideration of color. For example (and this is my personal pet-peeve), I cannot tell the difference between the red and green squiglies in Word to save my life. There are the EXACT same color to me. And that\'s just the beginning.\r\n\r\nSo, thanks for the defense, Paul. \r\n\r\nOh, one more thing to consider, estimates put the population of color-blind users at between 8 and 20% of the male population. I go with the generally standard 12%. That means that more than 1 out of every 10 male users will have problems with the colors of your designs. Is that really a population you want to alienate? Yeah, didn\'t think so.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> As the person mentioned in Paul’s example with the red “X,” I have to say a profound “Well done!”

Most people have no idea how complex and frustrating the world can be when color is not taken into consideration. So many design decisions are based without consideration of color. For example (and this is my personal pet-peeve), I cannot tell the difference between the red and green squiglies in Word to save my life. There are the EXACT same color to me. And that’s just the beginning.

So, thanks for the defense, Paul.

Oh, one more thing to consider, estimates put the population of color-blind users at between 8 and 20% of the male population. I go with the generally standard 12%. That means that more than 1 out of every 10 male users will have problems with the colors of your designs. Is that really a population you want to alienate? Yeah, didn’t think so.

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]]> By: trixie http://blog.paulpehrson.com/2006/07/03/in-defense-of-the-color-blind-user/#comment-1353 trixie Tue, 04 Jul 2006 19:23:47 +0000 http://blog.paulpehrson.com/2006/07/03/in-defense-of-the-color-blind-user/#comment-1353 I enjoyed your comments. I found another site that addresses color blindness as well. Here is the site: http://people.chem.byu.edu/brunsonj/templates/colorblindness<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('1353','trixie'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('1353','trixie','I enjoyed your comments. I found another site that addresses color blindness as well. Here is the site:\r\nhttp:\/\/people.chem.byu.edu\/brunsonj\/templates\/colorblindness'); return false;">Quote</a></div> I enjoyed your comments. I found another site that addresses color blindness as well. Here is the site:
http://people.chem.byu.edu/brunsonj/templates/colorblindness
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