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- Yashar, on 10/12/2007, -3/+115Tritan = Slashdot?
- takai, on 10/12/2007, -5/+65What are you talking about... It looks exactly the same.
- 7of7, on 10/12/2007, -3/+57I feel sorry for all the people who are "tritan" color blind. For them Digg looks like Slashdot.
- DrunkenPirate34, on 10/12/2007, -4/+40I think you might be color blind my good friend.
- LordSkywalker, on 10/12/2007, -3/+36So being color blind is like having Adblock installed?
- ICSU, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25You bastards have free custom colours :)
- somerandomnerd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23Well, I'm colourblind (out of the four tests, I can see a 25 and just barely make out an 8) and the first three look virtually identical to me. (Except for the yellow in the Deutan one.)
FWIW... - eddanger, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20OMG! I've discovered I'm colourblind!
- ziadoz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16Blapierre is entirely correct, and being wrongly digged down. Most people take the words colour and blindness literally, assuming colour blind people cannot see certain colours at all. As someone who is colour blind I can tell you it isn't true. I can see all the colours everyone else can see, the only difference is some colours look similar to each other, especially when they are close to one another.
I myself struggle with colours when they are dark shades. Colours in particular I find difficult are red and green, pink and blue and green and brown. The examples in the article though are just altered colours, so they don't actually show what colour blindness is. - aywwts4, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18Well ***** you too.
- nickbender, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10the irony is that i'm colorblind and i can't tell the difference between the first 2 and actual digg.
- driftwood07, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12it clearly compares several different layouts of the site next to the little bubbles we've probably already seen. [digg.com]
- Easty, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Was I the only one who thought 'They should make those available as customisable colour schemes for digg'?
- 2shae, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9That most really suck if you've just found that out
- radicaldementia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9coming soon, what would digg sound like if you were tone-deaf.
- 7of7, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12Damn it, guess it actually says that on the website.
- KibibyteBrain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Some of these designs look a bit nasty, but they are mostly usable. What worries me is unusable content that may appear due to colorblindness. I think CSS could be used wonderfully to allow a "colorblind friendly" sheet on many sites just as text friendly and other sheets are available.
Even better would be an addon to a tool like firefox's web developer extension that would automatically reprocess a page to make it "color blind" so that developers could get a better idea of how a substantial minority views their content. - BlueLaser, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7@Rabbethen: Along the lines of what mrcopt said, your perception of Slashdot should also be distorted (making our non-colorblind comparisons troublesome for you). To test this theory, we need to run Slashdot through these same filters and then compare the Tritanopia...wait...that won't work either. Your perception of the simulated colorblind pages is also distorted by your colorblindness. I guess you'll just have to take our word for it; the tritanopia rendering looks like Slashdot.
- JackyTreehorn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7"it would appear i am the third person to make this joke."
You must be comment-blind - MikeTheKitty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I've been completely colorblind for most of my life (not all, strangely). Driving is MURDER at night. If you can't see the outline of the stoplight casing, you have no idea if it's on top or bottom, left or right. And flashing single lights are simply ambiguous. I have simply stopped driving any street I don't know intimately during dusk or night.
There are other cues, like the "walk/don't walk" signals, of course. If you see a walk signal, it's a good bet that your light is green. If you see cars crossing from the other direction, it's probably green.
But still, I've run my share of red lights. Cops are always understanding (no tickets yet, fortunately), but it does really peeve the drivers behind me when I slow down to 15 mph before a green light, squinting at it through the foggy windshield.
On the bright side, I NEVER have to worry about my clothes matching. World's greatest excuse. - somerandomnerd, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11Then how do you know what everyone else sees?
- snapple, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Some people down downing this comment, but as a web designer, I believe he has a very good point. All web pages should be handicap accessible, that includes tending to those that are colorblind. Designers need to be more sensitive to this sort of thing to maximize traffic.
- sembetu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7There are ads on digg?
- Rabbethan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I have Tritanopia...and it looks nothing like Slashdot(And i do just mean in colors)...this is just untrue..
- jonashwing, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@somerandomnerd
you should have just stopped talking while you were ahead. - ziadoz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Because if you give me a picture of some colours I can see them all?
- snapple, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Haha, those color blind tests always freak me out. I get so nervous that I've been colorblind all my life and I'm about to find out. I mean, look at some of those, it's almost hard to tell the difference until it's pointed out for you. Ignorance is bliss, I suppose.
- rodrigo74, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It would be really cool if someone created a Firefox extension which would open several tabs for a given page, for the different types of color blindness..
- snapuswipe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Ignoring color-blindness on most websites really does not affect me viewing the internet that much. Most of the time, if I don't realize that a page has had a poor choice of color, I won't realize it. It all looks fine for me.
On the other hand, web games are a pain. I can't count how many times I've given up on a game [even ones that look potentially fun] because I can't tell the difference between the green and yellow they decided to use for their blocks. - ohmar, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5So, if all of those look the same to me...
edit - it would appear i am the third person to make this joke. I should go to sleep. - aywwts4, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Take the test, dont see any differences, get a doctor to check your vision.
http://colorvisiontesting.com/what%20colorblind%20people%20see.htm - zodo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It sounds like screaming children.
- BlueLaser, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4@ziadoz: How do you know?
If you have always been color blind and you say that you have trouble distinguishing some colors, how do you know that you can see all of the colors that others can? Maybe the shirt you think is red is really a vivid pink. To illustrate that effect to us non-color blind people, you have to alter the colors of the actual object (a website in this case) so we can see the colors as you might perceive them. - daeyeth, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Answer: they look the same
- aywwts4, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I can vouch for Protanopia, its very close, the (tan?) tab under the digg logo is a little off, but its rather close. if there was a drastic difference before there isnt much of one now.
- Homunculiheaded, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2ziadoz,
Either your not really color blind or you heavily in denial of what you aren't seeing. I'm also color blind and I can't tell you how many times I've made stupid mistakes like buying pink toilet paper (thinking it was white), and thought that strawberry icecream was vanilla. Yes being color blind doesn't mean the world looks black or white but you can't see all the colors and in fact I'm willing to bet that your making up for the deficiency in other ways. I'm pretty certain that my brain makes up for an inability to see colors well by learning to identify tones and shades of colors. Red is typically brighter than brown, but if they are exactly the same shade I can't tell them apart, most people can. But when you see a color and you have to think about what color it is, your not seeing the color and are subconciously looking for other idicators to let you know what color it is.
In the examples on the site i can only see the number 25 and for the life of me can't tell the difference between the first 2 diggs. You aren't seeing all the colors which is why it's hard for you to tell the difference between them. - aywwts4, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It looks completely the same, Its not like photocopying a photocopy.
The colorblind simulators remove the differences we cant see, and since we cant see them/dont see them in the original, exactly the same - Mikekuul, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2In a lecture just a couple of months ago we were shown one of those colour blind tests with the circles, where you are given a circle that you could either see a 5 (normal) or a 2 (Red/Green colour blind). Everyone in the entire lecture hall saw a 2, but this was because we were seeing it on a projector screen ;)
Good times.
I liked the look of the protan version, colour blindness is something I need to take into account more when designing. - thomas, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Some of those look bad but at least the site is still usable.
- ravithepimp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm red-green colorblind, and i can tell you, i hate ***** Christmas.
Oh, and yeah, the first three look identical to me. - superspak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i am already colorblind so no surprise here
- MrViklund, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Ohh nice. Would make for some really cool skins on Digg :)
- dAbReAkA, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2it would be nice to have those as possible skins :)
i kinda like the monochrome.. - snapple, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@ Shalabi
Not limit, expand to let all access it. For example, some registration pages make you type in a code to prove that you are, in fact, human. But, some of theses tests make colorblind, or for that matter blind, people unable to access the site. These situations should be cared for. No one has to limit anything as long as everyone is happy. (Everyone is a loose term, obviously not everyone can access every site) - missflibbles, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Yes. Adblock for your eyes.
- portly, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6You can't fly jets if you're colorblind.
- ruslanr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1you can't see ads when you're colorblind. nice.
- Lazybones, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Standard... "Then install FireFox with AdBlock Plus" and you will see the same comment.
Looked the same to me as I don't see ads, maybe they should change the name of the extension to AdBlind ? - hman2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://sociallygiven.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/diggcolorblndtritan.jpg
^ Looks like Slashdot! - Grumps, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Monochrome looks fine to me...
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