The contents of this page are not accessible to everyone. It has been written to highlight the problems for many colour-blind people when viewing websites. The image at the bottom is how the top part of the website will appear for the type of red-green colour blind vision known as deuteranope.
This header is virtually unreadable for some people
and the text of this sub header may completely disappear.
And so the most important information, contained in the headers above is unreadable to over 10% of the population. For people with red/green colour blindness, a bright turquoise colour appears almost white.
On a brown background many red and green colours are invisible.
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On a blue background many purple colours (including the default visited link colour) are invisible to colour blind users. This is not usually a problem for ordinary text, as the purple colour is not very obvious to anyone. But what about visited links? |
The image below shows this table as seen by someone with red green colour blindness. Note that some of the information has completely disappeared.
