1 see also

http://colorfilter.wickline.org/

posted at 08:51 am on March 30, 2010 by asdfa;lkj

2 Check Specifications under

http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/quickref/#visual-audio-contrast

posted at 11:00 am on March 30, 2010 by Freizeitler

3 check my colors

the checkmycolors.com is just check the css not the way human see the page I think

posted at 02:30 pm on March 30, 2010 by decaller

4 not about the tools

I love that line

Each designer must determine the balance between design and readability—a decision often made easier when considering the target audience and the purpose of the website.

Isn’t everything easier when you consider the target and purpose while creating?

thanks.

posted at 03:23 pm on March 30, 2010 by David Rodriguez

5 Not to be overly critical...

…but the W3 WAI site (http://www.w3.org/WAI/) scores < 4%. Gotta love it.

posted at 04:08 pm on March 30, 2010 by jakebrosy

6 Mac Desktop too for color checks

I’ve been using the OS X based tool Sim Daltonism for years. It’s a dead simple app but allows you to see 10 levels of varying color blindness live.

posted at 06:57 pm on March 30, 2010 by John Lascurettes

7 aDesigner

aDesigner is another tool which can be used to test how your pages look to people with different levels of colour blindness.

posted at 04:05 am on March 31, 2010 by John Faulds

8 Really Useful

Thank you very much for this article. I’ve long been aware that I should have colour-blindness in mind when picking schemes but I always thought that meant just choosing distinct colours. But browsing around the sites you listed it has become obvious that is not how it works at all.

Colour Scheme Designer in particular is a gem.

Thanks

posted at 10:39 am on March 31, 2010 by desic

9

Nicely put Leslie. Those pictures demonstrate what i usually try to tell my designer friends. Color is indeed important of course. But contrast is much more important. Just like adding alt tags for blind people, you should check how your web site seems in every way.

If the site is burning my eyes, then there indeed is something wrong with the contrast :)

posted at 03:14 pm on March 31, 2010 by Web Yazılım

10 Site well intentioned, but still young

www.CheckMyColours.com is a well intentioned site with potential, but it seems like it is still a young site; I tested a site design where all of the content was wrapped in a white-background div and it said everything was unreadable.

posted at 05:05 pm on March 31, 2010 by Stargazer