jdMorgan - 8:14 pm on May 24, 2002 (gmt 0)

ergophobe,

Great thread!

I'm one of the 8%, having what used to be called "red-green" colorblindness. When I design color motifs, I always used the "hex codes" to do it, as the hue/saturation and color-picker charts leave me totally confused. But thankfully, if you know how mixed colors are made up of the three RGB components, it helps a lot.

After doing the basic layout, I call in any normal-color "consultant" I can find handy, and ask them to help me tweak anything that looks "funny" to them. By making this a collaborative project between me and a normal-color-vision person, I work around my own deficit, and at the same time, assure that the site looks good to both groups.

Thanks for the links, too. I intend to go through all of those thoroughly this weekend. Too bad there isn't one that compensates for color-blindness by accentuating the colors so that moderately color-blind people could see what a page looks like to people with normal color vision! ;)

Thanks again,
Jim