This year
Color Laboratory -- AWARE Center -- HTML Writers Guild
by Monique & 2 others
This color laboratory allows you to select colors and see how they appear next to one another, and in various foreground/background combinations. It also allows you to see those colors as they might appear to color-blind users.
2011
A Guide To Improve Your Website's Readability Through Colors
by Monique
Colors have a huge effect on readability. This is why you need to choose them wisely so that they not only create esthetically pleasing combinations but also make it easier for users to read the text. Text is an integral part of any site and we shouldn’t punish visitors for coming to our site by using hard to read color combinations.
2010
Checking colour contrast – Humanising Technology
by Monique
When people talk about colour contrast on the web, they’re usually thinking in terms of text and information rich images. Most people won’t care what colours you’ve used for your decorative swooshes. If they can’t read the information you’ve put on your website though, they’re likely to be quite unhappy about it.
Proper Standards-Compliant Color Use in Web Design
by Monique
Perhaps it is no secret to you that a good frontend design should be usable and accessible. That could be understood as having content that’s organized, readable, and understandable to everyone browsing the web, regardless of any impairment they may have.
2009
ColorBrewer Intro - Selecting Good Color Schemes for Maps
by Monique & 1 other
ColorBrewer is an online tool designed to help people select good color schemes for maps and other graphics. It is free to use, although we'd appreciate it if you could cite us if you decide to use one of our color schemes.
Accessible colour combinations | 456 Berea Street
by Monique
Different people have different needs when it comes to the colour combinations that they can read comfortably (or at all) on screen. But what colour combinations are actually preferred by people with dyslexia or vision impairment?
Lighthouse International - Effective Color Contrast
by Monique
Designing for People with Partial Sight and Color Deficiencies
Colour contrast - Web Access Centre
by Monique
Good contrast is essential for people with reading problems and low vision.
Everybody is Color Blind
by Monique
Are you colorblind? No, you don’t think so? — I am sure you also have some form of color vision deficiency or colorblind sensations. You don’t believe me? I’ll prove it in the following article.
2008
2007
Sim Daltonisme
by sebastien & 3 others
Sim Daltonisme est un simulateur de daltonisme pour Mac OS X qui vous permet de filtrer en temps réel la zone entourant le pointeur de la souris et d’en afficher le résultat — tel que vu par une personne daltonienne — dans une palette flottante.
2006
Colorblind Web Page Filter
by sebastien & 17 others
'd like to express my appreciation to pair.com for donating a dedicated server to host this utility.
Use the colorblind colorlab to select safe colors earlier in the design process.
Learn more about colorblindness in this Wikipedia entry.
This tool is still in development, but feedback is welcome while I work on it. If you only use one filter, use the grayscale filter which will not only point out potential problem areas, but will also let you see more clearly which areas the filter is unable to process.
Colour Contrast Check
by sebastien & 31 others
The Colour Contrast Check Tool allows to specify a foreground and a background colour and determine if they provide enough of a contrast "when viewed by someone having color deficits or when viewed on a black and white screen"[W3C].
The tool will indicate that the colours pass the test if both the colour difference and the brightness difference exceed their threshold. It will indicate that it sort of passes if only one of the two values exceed their threshold. And finally, it'll fail to pass if neither value exceeds its threshold.
