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by oftheheadland 2806 days ago
Hi all,

At my company we try to keep our website colorblind-friendly. I decided to spend my free time building an extension to help me do that and realized I could share this experience with the world.

What is surprising is how different everything looks for colorblind people - it's not just black and white like you might expect.

It works by placing a CSS filter over the page that distorts colors similarly to actual colorblindness-distortion.

This is my first Chrome Extension - I would love to hear your feedback!

Cheers, Andrew

1 comments

This is neat but there is something quite wrong with the protanomaly/protanopia simulation. Look how it effects blue:

normal: https://i.imgur.com/icgmrI6.png

protanopia simulation: https://i.imgur.com/3FKU4eT.png

It adds a ton of red instead of removing it. Blues should be largly unaffected by protanomaly (though purples will turn to blue)

I think you're right, I'll look into this. Thank you!