#color blindness

[charlesoberonn]

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[maidenwalkout]

Glob.

[mother-ofthe-universedraws]

Some queer stuff for Pride Month! Featuring Simon’s flags

Also it’s my brother’s birthday today say happy birthday to him

Also, here’s a bonus:

[frogblast-the-ventcore]

[somemismatchedsocks]

Green tails in honor of my color blind cousin who absolutely is obsessed with the lil fox guy

Try going onto setting and color filter then turning on Red/Green filter for a surprise!!

or if your too lazy under cut lol

[cle00tdd]

Part 1 “Yellow?”

this took WAY too long. But yah here’s some color blind dogman comic

Poor fella can’t help it :(

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Writing Notes: Death & Dying

Death - the end of life, a permanent cessation of all vital functions.

Dying - the body’s preparation for death. This process may be very short in the case of accidental death, or it can last weeks or months, such as in patients suffering from cancer.

DEATH PREPARATION

Although it is not always possible, death preparation can sometimes help to reduce stress for the dying person and their family. Some preparations that can be done beforehand include:

Inform one or more family members or the executor of the estate about the location of important documents, such as social security card, birth certificate, and others.

Take care of burial and funeral arrangements (such as cremation or burial, small reception or full funeral) in advance of death, or inform family members or a lawyer what these arrangements should be.

Discuss financial matters (such as bank accounts, credit card accounts, and federal and state tax returns) with a trusted family member, lawyer, estate executor, or trustee.

Gather together all necessary legal papers relating to property, vehicles, investments, and other matters relating to collected assets.

Locate the telephone numbers and addresses of family and friends that should be contacted upon the death.

Discuss outstanding bills (such as utilities, telephone, and house mortgage) and other expenses that need to be paid.

Collect all health records and insurance policies.

Identify the desire to be an organ donor, if any.

MOURNING & GRIEVING

The death of a loved one is a severe trauma, and the grief that follows is a natural and important part of life.

No two people grieve exactly the same way, and cultural differences play a significant part in the grieving process.

For many, the immediate response may be shock, numbness, or disbelief.

Reactions may include:

Shortness of breath, heart palpitations, sweating, and dizziness.

Other reactions might be a loss of energy, sleeplessness or increase in sleep, changes in appetite, or stomach aches.

Susceptibility to common illnesses, nightmares, and dreams about the deceased are not unusual during the grieving period.

Emotional reactions are as individual as physical reactions.

A preoccupation with the image of the deceased or feelings of hostility, apathy, emptiness, or even fear of one’s own death may occur.

Depression, diminished sex drive, sadness, and anger at the deceased may be present.

Bereavement may cause short- or long-term changes in the family unit or other relationships of the bereaved.

It is important for the bereaved to work through their feelings and to not avoid their emotions.

Support groups are often available.

If a person does not feel comfortable discussing emotions and feelings with family members, friends, or primary support groups, they may wish to consult a therapist to assist with the process.

Various cultures and religions view death in different manners and may conduct mourning rituals according to their own traditions.

Visitors often come to express their condolences to the family and to bid farewell to the deceased.

Funeral services may be public or private.

Family or friends of the deceased may host a gathering after the funeral to remember and celebrate the life of the deceased, which also helps the bereaved to begin the mourning process positively.

Knowing how much a loved one is cherished and remembered by friends and family can provide comfort to those who experienced the loss.

Other methods of condolences include sending flowers or cards to the home or the funeral parlor, sending a donation to a charity that the family has chosen, or bringing a meal to the family during the weeks after the death.

Source ⚜ More: Writing Notes & References ⚜ Pain ⚜ Bereavement Death & Cheating Death ⚜ Pain & Violence ⚜ Death & Sacrifice

[fayrobertsuk]

On Online Accessibility

I painstakingly wrote this (or similar) out for a long, slightly ranty thread on BlueSky (which I had to restart several times as the app kept wiping it), so here it is in slightly expanded format with the points in the right order:

The Rant

I am literally BEGGING organisations, ESPECIALLY ones that are apparently supporting disabled people, to stop sending badly formatted, image-only mailouts.

This advice post is brought to you by a recent terrible email to a list of disabled people that was an Inaccessibility 101. (To their credit, they did respond fairly quickly with "Oh no! It was not supposed to do that!" and sent out a plain text one shortly afterwards. They didn't get all of the things below wrong, but this is a general "Here's how you can start to do better" list based on my - and others' - experience, including of personally getting it wrong.)

The List

If you feel that your formatting dream can only be fulfilled by a single large image, at least provide the means to access a plain text version of the relevant information. You've already had to type it, you can just copy-and-paste it elsewhere (alt-text or linked transcript, preferably both).

If you must use coloured text, please check that the contrast between it and the background is sufficient for people to access. You want to be able to ensure that they can read your message. There are plenty of sites that will check your Web Accessibility Standards, including this one, top of the Google search: https://accessibleweb.com/color-contrast-checker/

Unless accessibility standards have changed recently (and I'm happy to learn if they have), please avoid serifed fonts. Plain doesn't have to mean unpretty. Verdana and Tahoma are your friends, for example.

Plain backgrounds. But if you absolutely insist on having your text in front of an image, create a clear barrier between the words and the background (plain, thick outline or a box around the text like old-school subtitles). You want to minimise distractions.

Talking of which: paragraph formatting. Justified paragraphs will create distracting "rivers of white" that will make text processing difficult for e.g. folk with dyslexia or certain flavours of ADHD. Likewise, don't cram your lines too close together and distinguish clearly between paragraphs.

Don't make use of tiny images if people can't click through and see them in more clarity. And please try to describe your images, especially if they have relevant information in them. People who cannot process them will lose out, and you'll lose that connection. There are professionals who will describe for you (I'm one of them), or increasingly sophisticated apps.

Standard text emoji will be read aloud by screenreaders, so you don't need to supply descriptions for them, but do try to avoid long strings of them. Similarly, don't use a string of asterisks to divide sections. Imagine a robot voice saying asterisk asterisk asterisk asterisk asterisk each time. No. Use a line divider or even just a single *.

Please don't highlight text using underlining (too distracting), especially for text mid-paragraph. Use bold instead. Similarly, use italics sparingly, and certainly not for full paragraphs of text. If you want to highlight using colour, see point 2. above re: checking contrast.

If your hashtags are several strung-together words, make the beginning of each new word a capital letter e.g. #BetterAccessibilityNow to help both the screenreaders and folk who find it difficult to parse text generally distinguish between the words.

Some more thoughts:

"Why should I bother with all this? Surely it's only a handful of people who can't access stuff like this!"

a) Ugh. Bad attitude, friend.

b) But let's talk numbers of people not getting your message. Recent worldwide estimates: 49.1 million blind people. 224.1 million with moderate and 33.6 million people with severe visual impairment. 300 million people with colourblindness. 780 million (10% of the population) people are believed to be dyslexic.

It just makes business sense to not miss out on reaching so many folk. Let alone learning how to exercise empathy and thereby how to communicate with people who literally don't see the world as you do. And I know there's a spoons cost to making stuff more accessible - trust me, I know! But more and more platforms make it incredibly easy to add alt-text to your images, but there are always ways around it if they don't, and practising makes things easier.

And, while we're at it: subtitle your videos and provide transcripts for longer ones. Again: if you've already written a script, what's stopping you pasting it into another place for people to access as a bare minimum? And there are loads of reasonably priced transcription services out there (or do what I do and edit the auto-transcription)!

Anything to add (or correct me on)? Let me know!

[vexwerewolf]

Hey, do I have colourblind followers? I'd like to ask you about your opinions on using dice colour as a game mechanic in a TTRPG.

My idea is that by default, players have a red die and a blue die, and certain classes and abilities can buff or debuff a certain colour of dice, change (or remove) the colour of dice, etc. but I immediately saw an accessibility issue for people who are colourblind.

Colourblind gamers, what are your thoughts on this?

[bostrichidae]

have the urge to write gay little headcanons about sanemi's colorblindness

so here ya go

(sanegiyuu real)

sanemi can't really see colors other than extremely desaturated blues and greens. that's why he wears so much green

he also sees purples as blue. so he thinks shinobu's hair is blue

he has a tendency to stare at blue things. such as giyuu's eyes. he says it's because he's angry at giyuu

shinobu once asked him if he thinks giyuu's haori colors are weird. he doesn't fucking know so he just says "yes" because they probably are weird and also he can see the pattern

despite not being able to see red, sanemi is extremely aware of whether or not something is blood

he never questions the unique hair colors. the other hashira are a bit confused about this. it's because he has no idea that their hair colors are unique at all

mitsuri is especially puzzled about this, because basically every person she interacts with for more than 1 minute questions her hair

sanemi and obanai know about each other's vision impairments (if you don't know, obanai can barely see out of his yellow eye) and find ways to help each other out with that

gyomei also knows. he once asked sanemi about giyuu's haori after shinobu made a comment about it, and sanemi was like "idfk man i can't see colors for shit"

and of course ubuyashiki knows. because ubuyashiki

he also thinks ubuyashiki's rotting skin is blue (yknow that one audio that's like "what's wrong with you. why are you blue")

masachika was very understanding and helped explain colors to him

we love masachika why'd he have to die

anyways

this mf gay and visually impaired and we love him for it

[pixelmaniacsindie]

How our next game, ChromaGun 2, remains accessible with its color-based mechanics!

ChromaGun 2 is our next release - it's a first-person puzzle shooter, with mechanics based on a gun that shoots paint!

Essentially, you use the ChromaGun to color walls and littler worker droids in order to activate triggers and open doors. Droids are attracted to walls of the same color. And eventually, the player will need to mix primary colors to properly solve the puzzles. It sounds simple, but begins to increase in difficulty as new mechanics are introduced.

Here's the issue. If you have any form of color-blindness. This becomes noticeably more difficult and far less enjoyable.

It doesn't matter what form of color blindness you have. They all affect the core of the game, which makes using a filter or color-correction impractical; in order to compensate all forms of color-blindness, we'll need a different solution.

[Quick overview of forms of color-blindness by the NIH]

So how did we solve this?

Simple! We used shapes!

Huh? Shapes?

Yeah, shapes!

We assign each primary color an easily distinguishable symbol.

Triangle for yellow, straight line for red, and circle for blue! It is imperative that they're easily distinguishable. Both because it needs to be easy to tell the colors apart, and because they need to still be distinguishable when they mix together.

How does color mixing function?

See the gif above - when primaries are mixed, the shapes are combined together to create their own distinct symbols, allowing the user to put together the combination without needing the extra context of color.

Where do they appear?

Firstly, in the bottom-right corner of the screen, right next to the ChromaGun. This indicates what color is currently "equipped."

Secondly, they appear layered over colored WorkerDroids.

Thirdly, they appear dead-center on the surface of paintable walls.

Lastly, they appear on tertiary puzzle objects like boxes, vents, and other colorables! (see barrel above, for example)

Where can this be activated?

Currently, it can be toggled in the settings in the gameplay section of the main menu!

Does.. it work?

It has in fact been tested, and was successful in the titles predecessor, ChromaGun.

During my time at the Berlin Games Ground, I left the color blind mode active after a user mentioned they had difficulty seeing the colors. I thought ah, perfect! I can see our games feature in action. And.. it worked well! They immediately said everything made so much more sense, and in regards to the symbols, said that they appreciate that we used them rather than a filter.

Also, many non-colorblind players thought they were just a natural part of the game, as I left them on. So they're both functional, subtle, and visually pleasing.

In conclusion...

Accessibility is a core part of modern game design, and the inclusion of these features is imperative to the enjoyment of a game, especially when core mechanics are involved.

We don't want to exclude anyone from playing our game! Thanks for reading, and I hope you found this log interesting, and maybe even useful (especially if you're a fellow indie dev ;) )!

Iffff u wanna test it out, check out our steam page! We're currently preparing to do playtests! If your interested, let me know! (Email or dm!)

-Dean the INTERN

[unremarkablehouse]

After Mulder’s color blindness post I got interested in how Red/Green color blind see the world. They actually can perceive the shades but they come out darker. I’m from a family of gingers so I find the term red hair confusing as it’s an orange colour not red. How funny would it be if the reason Scully’s hair got progressively more orange on the show was because she was making it brighter for Mulder to see it better 😂

[angelpointe]

According to a random colorblindness filter site online , this is what Ena looks like for me , I’m Blue Yellow Color deficient ( Tritanomaly )

Compared to the original :

Disclaimer that these sites are not always accurate , but personally I can not see much of a difference

[mother-ofthe-universedraws]

More Simon! And fun facts about the little guy.

CW! For the fork stabbing thing