Re: [MACCAWS] [OT] 508 compliant

"Jon Dillon" <[email protected]> Wed, 11 Sep 2002 21:06:41 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.vkit
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> --- Tony Crockford <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > He's red-green color-blind.
> >
> > it occurs to me that a good test of a site might be
> > to look at it
> > through a colored gel (transparancy) or two.
>
> Hey: we should write an app that runs a screenshot
> through imagemagick and applies a colored layer with a
> multiply layer effect to preview the color contrast.
> You could then test for a couple different type of
> colorblindness, like blue-black that affects a lot of
> men, too.

This is a great idea.  But what if someone is already colorblind and doesn't
know it?  Eh?!!!  WHAT THEN? ! ? ;-)

Jonathan