{"id":39214,"date":"2023-04-28T14:05:18","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T18:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=39214"},"modified":"2023-04-28T14:05:18","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T18:05:18","slug":"designing-for-colorblindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/28\/designing-for-colorblindness\/","title":{"rendered":"Designing for Colorblindness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/23650428\/colorblindness-design-ui-accessibility-wordle\">Andy Baio<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/23650428\/colorblindness-design-ui-accessibility-wordle\">\n<p>For some people, colorblindness is a serious liability that closes doors on career dreams. It&rsquo;s hard to become a pilot, train conductor, or pathologist if you can&rsquo;t differentiate colors in critical instruments, signals, or tissue samples. For others, it seriously impacts their day-to-day ability to do their jobs, like surveyors spotting flags, doctors looking at skin conditions, or electricians looking for colored wires.<\/p>\n<p>But for me, it&rsquo;s just a lifelong series of unnecessarily confusing interactions, demonstrating that the world wasn&rsquo;t designed for people like me.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/link\/2020\/05\/iconfactorys-tot-updated-for-less-color\/\">Jason Snell<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/link\/2020\/05\/iconfactorys-tot-updated-for-less-color\/\">\n<p>Basically, Tot&rsquo;s launch screen was utterly baffling to me because I&rsquo;m (mildly) colorblind and it was asking me to do things based on whether a tiny ring was green or red. I couldn&rsquo;t see it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.iconfactory.com\/2020\/05\/tot-a-new-kind-of-accessibility\/\">Craig Hockenberry<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/blog.iconfactory.com\/2020\/05\/tot-a-new-kind-of-accessibility\/\">\n<p>The initial releases of Tot didn&rsquo;t have great accessibility. We knew it needed improving, but experience has shown us the folks who need these features have great ideas and happily share their opinions.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Luckily we have <a href=\"https:\/\/xscopeapp.com\/\">a tool<\/a> that let me approximate what Jason was seeing. xScope&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/xscopeapp.com\/testing#3\">vision defect simulator<\/a> confirmed that Tot&rsquo;s colored circles had serious issues.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Baio: For some people, colorblindness is a serious liability that closes doors on career dreams. It&rsquo;s hard to become a pilot, train conductor, or pathologist if you can&rsquo;t differentiate colors in critical instruments, signals, or tissue samples. For others, it seriously impacts their day-to-day ability to do their jobs, like surveyors spotting flags, doctors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-04-28T18:05:20Z","apple_news_api_id":"017f3e01-8850-49c1-990b-ce22e558f339","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-04-28T18:05:20Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AAX8-AYhQScGZC84i5VjzOQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[930,566,77,31,30,2372,96,2155],"class_list":["post-39214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-accessibility","tag-color","tag-design","tag-ios","tag-mac","tag-tot","tag-web","tag-wordle"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39215,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39214\/revisions\/39215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}