Colorblind Users Push Technology Designers to Use Signals Beyond Color – WSJ
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Colorblind Users Push Technology Designers to Use Signals Beyond Color
Simple user interface tweaks make life easier for colorblind people
Trello’s mode for colorblind users adds patterns (left) to help people distinguish between labels.
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Trello
By
Katie Deighton
June 5, 2020 6:00 am ET
Leaving a Zoom meeting used to be a challenge for Marta Olea, a university professor based in Madrid. Ms. Olea is colorblind so could not see the app’s red-on-black “Leave Meeting” text on her computer screen. A large proportion of the 300 million people living with color vision deficiency world-wide would have trouble finding the button too. The most common forms of the condition affect a person’s ability to clearly see shades of green and red.
Zoom redesigned the button in April to display white text on a red background.
