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Vischeck
See the world as color blind people see it. Can also simulate the effects of distance or different monitor types.
http://www.vischeck.com
Umist Eye System
Extensive colour vision test from the UK.
http://www.umist.ac.uk/UMIST_OVS/UES/COLOUR0.HTM
Ask A Biologist
Color tests for eyes with or without the condition.
http://askabiologist.asu.edu/research/seecolor/colortest.html
HealthLink MCW
An article about the severity of this ailment.
http://healthlink.mcw.edu/article/999211295.html
Pseudoisochromatic Plates Comparison Chart
Chart compares color vision tests. Links to related information.
http://www.richmondproducts.com/ColorPlateComparisonChart.htm
Drugs affecting color vision
Chart lists drugs affecting color vision. Ibuprofen (Advil) makes it worse.
http://www.richmondproducts.com/Drugs%20That%20Affect%20Color%20Vision.htm
Color blindness
Information from Cataract & Laser Institute. Signs & Symptoms, Detection & Diagnosis, Treatment.
http://www.stlukeseye.com/Conditions/ColorBlindness.asp
Disability Advice Centre fact sheet - colour blindness
4-page Royal Mail (UK) pdf about the disability. Includes useful URLs.
http://www.consignia.com/dac/factsheets/colour_blindness.pdf
EyeDropper
free program works with Windows to let you know the color of any part a PC screen. Allows removing background images and the adjustment of text to black & white.
http://www.inetia.com/eyedropper_eng.php
Explanation, with online tests
Includes chart, tables, and pictures.
http://members.shaw.ca/hidden-talents/vision/color/colorblind1.html
Color Blindness: More Prevalent Among Males
Short article tells how disease evolved.
http://www.hhmi.org/senses/b130.html
What's Color Blindness?
KidsHealth ("For Kids") article written and peer-reviewed by Physicians.
http://kidshealth.org/kid/talk/qa/color_blind.html
Medical Genetics - X-linked Recessive: Red-Green Color Blindness, Hemophilia A
Inheritance of the condition, and similar mechanism in hemophilia.
http://www.musckids.com/health_library/genetics/xlink.htm
Color Vision
Presentation about normal vision. Includes spectra, eye anatomy and color response curves.
http://www.photo.net/photo/edscott/vis00010.htm
Information & Products
Addresses and links for makers and sellers of products to accomodate color vision problems.
http://www.jan.wvu.edu/cgi-win/OrgQuery.exe?Sol232
Gene Research on Cure for Colorblindness
Animal trials insert normal genes into the retina using a retrovirus, to give color vision.
http://www.healthlink.mcw.edu/article/1031002361.html
List of genetic disorders - Wikipedia
Entry lists colorblindness as a point mutation in the X chromosome. Links to details.
http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genetic_disorders
Color blindness - Wikipedia
"Free Encyclopedia" entry. Includes (web) design implications.
http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness
Appearance: Colorblindness
How things look to someone who is colorblind. Overview of tests and genetics.
http://webexhibits.org/causesofcolor/2.html
Creamer Color Chart
Screening test for the early detection of red-green colorblindness in children.
http://colorblindtest.com
Ishihara Test
Classic diagnostic for the condition.
http://www.toledo-bend.com/colorblind/Ishihara.html
Colour Vision Testing
Leading UK colour vision consultant offers tests for education, careers, employment and safety-related professions.
http://vortex.mech.surrey.ac.uk/colour/homepage.html
Colorblindness information page
Includes an Ishihara plate, information from those disabled and their relatives, and links to media articles. Names of colors appear in the color.
http://www.dai-sho.com/colorblindness/
Color Blindness
Professional information on color blindness, related conditions and tests. Concludes that "No treatment is available for any form of inherited color vision deficiency."
http://www.eyemdlink.com/Condition.asp?ConditionID=116
Colorblindness prosthesis, per CNN
Describes optometrist and lenses he invented to "improve his red-green colorblindness"
http://www.dai-sho.com/colorblindness/cnnarticle.html
FDA talk paper
U.S. Department position on 'colormax' lenses to ameliorate red-green color deficiency.
http://www.dai-sho.com/colorblindness/fdatalkpaper.html
Colorblindness and . . .Types
Explains mechanics and physiology, and includes color wheels to simulate what the disabled see.
http://members.aol.com/nocolorvsn/color2.htm
Color Blindness: Treatment
Paragraph may trigger pop-ups. Links to test plate or poster sales, and information on the X-Chrom lens.
http://www.angelfire.com/mb/colorblind/treat.html
The X-Chrom lens: a case study
Paragraph from Australian Optometrists Association describing patient fitted with a color contact.
http://www.optometrists.asn.au/ceo/backissues/vol71/no3/1602
Chromagen Tinted Soft Contact Lens
"FDA cleared" product to help the color blind and dyslexic. FAQs, testiomonials, vision centers (one in the USA).
http://www.chromagenvision.com/index.html
When Is a Disabled Employee Qualified?
Shannon v. NY Transit Auth., was a bus driver whose employer found he was color-blind. Considers disability under the (US) Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
http://www.lfhc.com/art_disabled.cfm
CVRL Color & Vision database
an annotated library of downloads for color and vision research. Color Vision Research Laboratory information is primarily scientific and technical.
http://cvision.ucsd.edu/
International Colour Vision Society
physiologists, psychologists, physicists, geneticists, optometrists, ophthalmologists and others who have a research interest in colour vision or deficiency
http://orlab.optom.unsw.edu.au/ICVS
Job-Hunting for the So-Called Handicapped or People Who Have Disabilities
Page to sell paperback by Richard Nelson Bolles (author of the extremely popular job-hunting book, What Color is Your Parachute?)
http://www.starvingmind.net/detail/1580081959/Job-Hunting_for_the_So-Called_Handicapped_or_People_Who_Have_Disabilities.html
Red-green color blindness in humans
Tutorial from sex-linked inheritance problem set provides college-level explaination. Includes graphics
http://www.biology.arizona.edu/mendelian_genetics/problem_sets/sex_linked_inheritance/07t.html
Colorblind
Short facts on condition. Links to self-diagnostic test.
http://tjshome.com/colorblind.php
Medical College develops genetic test for colorblindness
Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Journal Sentinel story of test licensed to ColorMax. "A major breakthrough."
http://www.jsonline.com/bym/news/nov00/color16111500a.asp
Applied Biosystems - BioBeat - ABI PRISM® 310 Genetic Analyzer Makes Colorblindness Easier to See
Promotes machine in analysis of colorblindness. "At present, there is not a diagnostic test to distinguish between hereditary colorblindness and acquired color vision deficiencies."
http://www.appliedbiosystems.com/biobeat/neitz/
Firelily Designs - Color Vision, Color Deficiency
Pictures to approximate what the afflicted see. Article about color problems, causes, and compensation with web design or browser settings.
http://www.firelily.com/opinions/color.html
Probers fear co-pilot in FedEx crash is colorblind
(AP) Officials are investigating color-deficient co-pilot after plane crash.
http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/national/article/0,1406,KNS_350_2533961,00.html
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