The Ignored Handicap

Color Blindness, medically known as Daltonism or deuteranopia is a common malady, especially among men. Color vision deficiency is defined as the inability to perceive differences between some or all colors that other people can easily distinguish. Most often it’s genetic, but it can be caused by other reasons.

This handicap has always been ignored. But it shouldn't be. There are an estimated 10 million colorblind people driving cars in the US and they often can't see the difference between a red and a green light.

However, they obviously function very well in daily tasks. Read Ruedi's story to see just what it meant to be part of an ignored handicap.

 

Color blindness tests are great first step. We recomend printed books, as opposed to online charts. Color resolutions on computer monitors vary and can give bad colorblind test results.

Lately, there have been some press about colorblindness treatments. Contact lenses and specially tinted glasses are not really a cure. What they do is to create deeper contrasts in colors. You don't really see the colors any better, you just see more contrast, especially for red - green colorblindness.
We'll keep searching and when we find the next promissing treatment it will be posted on this site rignt away.

Here's some online resources for colorblind research:

kidshealth.org/kid/talk/qa/color_blind.html - kids colorblind info

eyecaresource.com/conditions/color-blindness/

stlukeseye.com/Conditions/ColorBlindness.asp

toledo-bend.com/colorblind/Ishihara.html - color blind charts

webexhibits.org/causesofcolor/2.html#vissamp - colorblind chart

colorvisiontesting.com/online%20test.htm - colorblind test

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness - Wikipedia

allaboutvision.com/conditions/colordeficiency.htm

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