web page color and accessibility

[Julia Schult]

A denizen of this list posted some information to a smaller list which I thought would be of interest to people here.  With Kevin Bishop's permission, I am posting his list of sites that address the issue of choosing colors to enhance accessibility without losing attractiveness for those with normal vision:

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In the interest of designing colorful web sites without sacrificing 
usability for those with color-deficient vision, I'm compiling a list of 
URLs for such resources.  Please feel free to share any other useful 
information you may have come across.

Thanks!  -kb

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Colour Blind Design Hints and Tips
http://www.cimmerii.demon.co.uk/colourblind/design.html

Designing for the Color-Challenged: A Challenge
http://www.InternetTG.org/newsletter/mar99/accessibility_color_challenged.html

ColorMax - Colorblind Science
http://www.colormaxtech.com/colorblindscience/colorblind.htm

Safe web colours for colour-defience vision
http://innovate.bt.com/people/rigdence/colours/

See "Safe web colours for colour-deficient vision," by Christine Rigden:
http://innovate.bt.com/people/rigdence/colours/

Vischeck has a free tool that produces red/green colorblind
simulations of Web pages: http://www.vischeck.com/vischeckURL.php3
[VERY COOL!]

more on design for vision impairments and other accessibility issues ... 
nice list:
http://www-personal.si.umich.edu/~calz/ermlinks/hci_univ.htm

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Kevin W. Bishop, Campus-Wide Info. Sys. Coord.
Libraries and Information Services
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
<bishopk at rpi.edu> | <http://www.rpi.edu/rpinfo/>

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---Julia E. Schult
Access/Electronic Services Librarian
Elmira College
Jschult at elmira.edu
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