Color Blind Complaint

[scmhogg]

I have red-green color blindness. No big deal, as long as LOML picks out my ties. On my own, I can make some great combinations. Blue and purple look the same to me. I once bought a black suit, that LOML tells me is dark burgundy.

Anyway, on page 86 of the October, 2008, Wood Magazine, there is an ad for Heartland of America. The background is green and the prices and some of the descriptions are red. So, I am told. There is nothing there for me.

On the up side, I was always better at picking out the camouflaged guys in the Army.

Steve

[dlminehart]

You'd think there'd be glasses for colorblindness by now. Not to remove it entirely, perhaps, but to exaggerate the tonal differences.

[cabinetman]

I had to learn to like OD. On the downside, camo just doesn't look right to me in tan.
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[Tom Slick]

my uncle was an electrician and electrical engineer and was also colorblind. scary combo!! He just learned what the color conversion was for what he saw, blue was green or whatever.

I had an employee that was colorblind, almost black and white. He'd install different colored florescent bulbs in the same fixture, i.e. warm with daylight, and I couldn't figure out why. I asked him about the difference and he said "the only difference is brightness" not color. after that he had to match all of the numbers on the bulbs he replaced.

[RodKirby]

+1 Red/green

I can't distinguish between pale shades of blue/green.

Are you sure there's red on that green

[shoottx]

Slight color blindness for shades. I have a terrible time in finishing wood. The only appearnce for appling finish is the appearance of wet in bright light.

The good news is it drives the LOML crazy watching me attempt finishing , so she has started helping in this area.

[dbhost]

And I thought my astigmatism was bad... I remember asking my opthamologist about color blindness because a friend of mine in high school had it (I was young, dumb, and thought it might be contagious!), he said, and I am honestly paraphrasing here, that it was due to the cones (?) in the eye that detect color and brightness, like the color guns in a TV tube, and certain ones simply don't work right on some people...

[Mr__Bill]

On many web pages you can highlight everything and it changes the colors so that they are readable. In Firefox it's possible to set the foreground and background color to your choice. You should be able to set the colors to ones that provide a readable contrast for you.

Hope this helps,

Bill on the sunny Oregon Coast

[scmhogg]

When I enlisted in the Army in 1961, I signed up for Armored in Europe. When I arrived at the induction center, they told me I could not go to Armored or any other combat arms [infantry, artillery] as I was color blind. I went anyway.

At the end of basic, I was told that my math scores qualified me to go to artillery survey school. So, color-blind me went to Ft. Sill. At survey school, I was asked if I wanted to be a paratrooper. $55.00 extra a month, I was on my way to jump school.

I guess 101st Airborne Division Artillery was not a combat arms. The ironic part was the necessity to differentiate between green and red smoke on the drop zone in JM school.

Go figure.

Steve

[JoeyGee]

Two of the best telecom guys I ever worked with were color blind. It's hard enough for me sometimes to work on the telecom wires with them being so skinny, and not very high contrast in color. I couldn't imagine doing it being color blind.

[crokett]

At work when we release new products they go through something called a useability review. As part of that review for one product I did I had to redesign it to add a light pipe for 3 LEDs - Red, Amber and Green instead of just 2 where one is bicolor. The explanation I got was color blind folks can't tell the difference in color but if you have 3 they can look at the positioning.

Another funny one - some years ago I was at a picnic and a guy was picking the orange noodles out of his pasta salad. I asked him what he was doing and he said 'I don't like the green ones'.