PLEASE NOTE AS OF 1st JANUARY 2025 COLOUR BLIND AWARENESS CIC IS NO LONGER AN ACTIVE ORGANISATION. INFORMATION ON THIS WEBSITE MAY THEREFORE BE OUT OF DATE. WE ARE NO LONGER ABLE TO RESPOND TO EMAILS, PHONE CALLS ETC.
Businesses – please visit our dedicated website Colour Blind Awareness Consulting which remains active and which also fund this website so that it can remain as a repository of information and free downloadable resources. Colour Blind Awareness Consulting is strictly for business consulting enquiries only.
For all non-business enquiries, we are extremely sorry but we are no longer able to provide support. We have worked hard to create this detailed website and hope you will still be able to find the answers to your questions.
Ad hoc requests for advice
We are no longer able deliver free advice for individual ad hoc requests, such as advice on whether a particular colour scheme is accessible. If you are interested in our consultancy service please contact us via our dedicated Consulting website Colour Blind Awareness Consulting so that we can provide a quote.
We do have a wealth of resources on this website and kindly request you to take a look at these, or
Remember to use these 5 Simple Steps for design
1 Whenever you use colour to give information make sure to also use another way of providing the same information such as text/labels, symbols or textures such as stippling or hatching.
2 Always use dark-coloured text or other labels against light backgrounds and light-coloured text or labels against dark backgrounds.
3 When highlighting important information e.g. in red text within black body text, use another technique to make sure information stands out to everyone, such as bold or different sized font, underlining, italics etc.
4 Avoid using pastels/pale grey text or symbols on a white background.
5 Check if your designs are accessible by converting into grayscale. If your design doesn’t work in greyscale then it is unlikely to be accessible to colour blind people and you may need to reconsider your design.
A further point to note: despite what you may find on the internet, there is no such thing as an accessible colour palette for all types of colour blindness, so aim to always add labels or symbols, for example when using a colours for diagrams or charts e.g. for a red/ amber/ green coding system.
Students/research projects
We are, of course, delighted to know that there are many of you planning to create projects which relate to improving the world for people with colour vision deficiencies.
Schools
If you are looking for help for your school project although we can’t help individual projects don’t worry as all the information you are looking for should be available elsewhere on this website!
Students/research projects
Unfortunately, we are no longer able to become involved in sourcing participants for individual research projects as we receive so many approaches from students and projects from around the world. We do not hold a membership list of colour blind individuals to be approached as potential participants for research and due to the volume of requests we receive, we are no longer able to post requests for participants directly to our social media accounts.