gmoney - 3:01 pm on May 24, 2002 (gmt 0)

Thanks for the post ergophobe.

I believe that most people who read this thread will strive to make their designs color blind friendly. However, educating all the web designers about these issues would be quite a major undertaking.

I would have thought that there would have been a browser developed that could automatically modify the way a web page is displayed to best suit a particular type of colorblindness. A basic version of this might be a reassignment of the colors grey levels before displaying in grey scale. For example a person could browse in color but on a page where the colors started merging together, the person could click over the modified grey scale. I would be surprised if a more sophisticated (color) version of this didn’t already exist . . . 2% to 8% of all web surfers is quite a big incentive for any software company.

On a fun side note: I have heard that Google is able to detect things like white text on white background and it has been known to penalize websites search engine rankings for such practices. Perhaps we can convince Google to find a way to detect non colorblind friendly websites and punish the respective websites search engine rankings. That would surely get every web designer to snap to attention.