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  • When designing for color blindness, make sure that colors are not your only method of conveying important information.

  • Use this filter to test web pages for color blindness https://www.toptal.com/designers/colorfilter/

  • If the purpose of posting the content is to communicate something about the colors in that image or web page, then it is important to provide some other way of understanding the information.

Challenges

Solutions

Reds and greens are often indistinguishable

This is not normally a problem except in cases where the colors convey important information. Under these circumstances you will need to either change the content or graphic or provide an additional means of obtaining the same information. For example, provide an explanation in the text itself.

Color and Alert/Error Messaging

  • Don’t rely on color to convey critical information such as alerts and error messages. See more info about this under the Alert/Error Messaging section.