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Design: Color Blind

Contributed by Rick DeVan on April 18, 2011 at 9:20 am ET

Resource: Are colour blind gamers left out? via the BBC.

Despite the large numbers of gamers affected, awareness among the development community is comparatively low. Only a handful of publishers make concerted efforts to cater to people with this genetic condition.

Resource: Colour blindness test via the BBC.

It is is easy to take color blindness into account when designing a website, but a website is not a video game. Should there be standards?

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