Sayonara Posted June 24, 2004 Share Posted June 24, 2004 This handy web site lets you view pages as seen by the sufferers of various forms of colour blindness: http://colorfilter.wickline.org/ SFN Filtered Very handy for checking accessibility! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tesseract Posted June 24, 2004 Share Posted June 24, 2004 Hmm, thats interesting.Yet pointless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted June 24, 2004 Author Share Posted June 24, 2004 It's not pointless at all, it's a vital tool for web developers. Try looking at sites that have lots of red and green with the "Protan" filter on, or ones that use colour alone to convey important information, and you will see what I mean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tesseract Posted June 24, 2004 Share Posted June 24, 2004 Hmm, look at the red & green show website with protan filter. http://colorfilter.wickline.org/?a=1;r=www.scienceforums.net/forums/showthread.php%3Ft%3D4570;l=0;j=1;u=www.redgreen.com;t=p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Demosthenes- Posted June 25, 2004 Share Posted June 25, 2004 It seems pretty cool, but sayanora in the thread you spelled color wrong again... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
admiral_ju00 Posted June 25, 2004 Share Posted June 25, 2004 Hmm, thats interesting.Yet pointless. Then maybe you'll find this site more acceptable. http://www.mcw.edu/cellbio/colorvision/index.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted June 25, 2004 Share Posted June 25, 2004 It seems pretty cool, but sayanora in the thread you spelled color wrong again... Damned wrong American spellings... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted June 25, 2004 Share Posted June 25, 2004 Hey, don't you like not having to type in one letter? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted June 25, 2004 Author Share Posted June 25, 2004 Microsoft English makes the baby Jesus cry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted June 25, 2004 Share Posted June 25, 2004 Hey, don't you like not having to type in one letter? It's just not proper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mossoi Posted June 25, 2004 Share Posted June 25, 2004 Hmm, thats interesting.Yet pointless. It's very, very, very, very far from pointless. I'm colourblind and have faced the question "what colour is that?" for my whole life. Now I can finally show people how I see the world and they can gain some understanding of what it's like. Consider also that most LED indicators change from red to green to indicate whether something is on/active and sites like these may possibly help the design "gurus" who perpetuate this choice in electronics and throughout computer hardware and software to sort it out. 1 in 30 males is red green colourblind so it's a lot more common than people think. Maybe they'll consider this when they decide that a tiny LED that changes between the worst possible choice of colours is a good thing. Or a site where green and red are used to indicate different states? FAT CHANCE - it's just not cool to use blue and green or red and yellow is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Demosthenes- Posted June 26, 2004 Share Posted June 26, 2004 Color Color Color. U's are not cool anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mossoi Posted June 26, 2004 Share Posted June 26, 2004 Hmm, the age old color/colour debate. Well here's something that you might not like if you don't like U's. The american dictionary recognises the word COLOUR. Definition is here http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=colour&x=18&y=8 (note it says CHIEFLY British so it is an American word). Whereas the Oxford English dictionary does not recognise the word COLOR. The Cambridge dictionary does come up with a result but only to say that it's a US word - http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=15017&dict=CALD So, to technically be correct on an international forum the word COLOUR should be chosen over COLOR as it is recognised both by the English and the American dictionaries as a native word. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Demosthenes- Posted June 26, 2004 Share Posted June 26, 2004 Sounds logical enough, but you know what doesn't sound logical? Color spelled with a U!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
admiral_ju00 Posted June 26, 2004 Share Posted June 26, 2004 Sounds logical enough, but you know what doesn't sound logical? Color spelled with a U!!! Addition of U's to words like: Colour, flavour, etc, was always told(at least to me) that it is an International English. It is used everywhere Except in the USA. I wonder though, did anybody check out the linky I posted??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tesseract Posted June 26, 2004 Share Posted June 26, 2004 Its also used in Canada: colour... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
admiral_ju00 Posted June 26, 2004 Share Posted June 26, 2004 Its also used in Canada:colour... Last time I checked, Canada was Not part of USA. Which would mean it will be covered by the phrase "Everywhere except USA", or wouldn't it? But on a side note, some people, including myself think that USA should simply annex Canada as it's 51st state, since right now it's(Canada) neither here nor there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted June 26, 2004 Author Share Posted June 26, 2004 How can they say "chiefly British variant of color"? Wtf? Confusion over which came first, I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atinymonkey Posted June 26, 2004 Share Posted June 26, 2004 I note that they used the word British, and not English, so not to confuse the people who think they are speaking English. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted June 26, 2004 Author Share Posted June 26, 2004 Addition of U's to words like: Colour, flavou[/b']r, etc, was always told(at least to me) that it is an International English. It is used everywhere Except in the USA. Surely you mean "the USA is the only country that removes U's from English"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
admiral_ju00 Posted June 26, 2004 Share Posted June 26, 2004 Yes, but didn't you just flip what I said more or less upside down? Same message, just reads diffently? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted June 26, 2004 Author Share Posted June 26, 2004 No, it's the opposite message. Yours implies that everyone else who speaks English is using a derivative of American English. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
admiral_ju00 Posted June 26, 2004 Share Posted June 26, 2004 Did I/it? That was unintentional. Ok, then I'm glad you fixed that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Demosthenes- Posted June 27, 2004 Share Posted June 27, 2004 Surely you mean "the USA is the only country that removes[/b'] U's from English"? Only U's that aren't needed Sorry I ruined this thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted June 27, 2004 Author Share Posted June 27, 2004 I'm with you on things like "thru" (because as Mr Izzard says, we should be saying it "thruff"). But without the u in there, color should be pronounced "co-lore", which it clearly isn't. And what's with 'aluminum'? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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