Color Blindness

Appearance: Colorblindness - How things look to someone who is colorblind. Overview of tests and genetics.

Aspects of Perception - Illustrates "how people with less than three types of cones can confuse different wavelengths."

Children's Vision: Color Vision Deficiency - Describes signs, testing, causes, types, and disadvantages. From the Optometric Physicians of Washington (OPW).

Color Blindness - Professional information on color blindness, related conditions and tests.

Color Blindness - Information from Cataract and Laser Institute. Presents signs, symptoms, detection, and treatment options.

Color Blindness - Presents symptoms, causes, types, and tests. Includes a form for questioning an optometrist.

Color Vision - Presentation about normal vision. Includes spectra, eye anatomy and color response curves.

Color Vision - Discusses school difficulties from low color vision, as well as inheritance and safety considerations.

Color Vision Confusion - Explains how web pages can be designed to avoid problems for those with colorblindness. Includes color wheels and references for design tutorials.

Color Vision Deficiency Information & Products - Searchable Online Accommodation Resource provides contact details for United States makers and suppliers of assistive devices.

Color Vision Information for Pilots / FAA Medical Standards - Pilot Medical Solutions provides FAA medical certification support for pilots and aviation medical examiners.

Colorblind - Short facts on condition. Links to self-diagnostic test.

Colorblind HomePage - Explains mechanics and physiology, and includes color wheels to simulate what the disabled see.

Colors for the Color Blind - Provides background information and a set of charts to help those working with computer colors.

Colour Blindness - Wikipedia article includes a simple diagnostic test, rates of incidence, causes, and types of deficiency.

Egopont - Color Vision Test - Includes a color vision test which may help the visitor to assess whether he/she is able to see colors correctly.

Explaining Color Deficiency - Includes chart, tables, and pictures.

Firelily Designs - Pictures to approximate what the patient sees. Article about color problems, causes, and compensation with web design or browser settings.

Mayo Clinic: Poor Color Vision - Includes overview, causes, screening, diagnosis, treatment, and coping skills.

More Prevalent Among Males - A report from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute explains how the condition is inherited.

Seeing Color - Arizona State University provides definitions and tests.

The Upside of Color Blindness - DISCOVER Magazine reports, "Color-blind monkeys make better insect hunters." Includes pictures of what the colorblind (do not) see, and Pseudoisochromatic plate.

Vischeck - Allows the user to see the world as color blind people see it. Checks by images and urls.

Visolve - Software utility that transforms colors of the computer display into the discriminable colors for people with color blindness.

Genetic Studies Endow Mice with New Color Vision - Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers give human color vision to mice. (March 23, 2007)

Gene Research on Cure for Colorblindness - A report from the Medical College of Wisconsin outlines the results of trials to insert normal genes into the retina using a retrovirus. (April 14, 2004)

Color Vision Test Detects Diabetic Retinopathy Before Vision is Lost - to ID those who will progress to develop more severe retinal disease (June 12, 2003)

Severity of Colorblindness Varies - An article by the Professor of Ophthalmology at Medical College of Wisconsin. (August 30, 2001)

Aliens among us - Preliminary evidence of superhuman tetrachromats. Article written by Ryan Sutherland, 2001. [PDF] (April 14, 2001)

Looking for Madam Tetrachromat - Considers the possibility of superior color vision. Also discusses color deficiencies. Plain text, but includes URLs for links. (November 1, 2000)

CNN: New eyeglasses designed to help people with colorblindness - Presents the views of an optometrist and ophthalmologist. (April 21, 2000)

FDA Talk Paper: ColorMax Lenses - A fact sheet from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services addresses the claims made by the manufacturers and promoters. (December 21, 1999)

Color Vision Changes Signal Blood Glucose Fluctuations - 70% of young type 1 patients without retinopathy have color vision changes. (January 15, 1996)