Ensuring Scientific Figures Are Accessible to Colorblind Readers
Colorblind: Checking figure accessibility for colour blind people
I share a simple ImageJ script to check how scientific figures appear to people with different types of color blindness. After identifying issues in our recent paper, we redesigned the images by showing separated channels in grayscale. This approach ensures everyone can see individual data channels without needing to distinguish specific color overlays, making our research more inclusive.
The solution is not as simple as banning red/green overlays.
- gcanyon
For anyone working on a Mac, I highly recommend Sim Daltonism. It gives you an interactive display on your Mac that you can place over any section of your screen to simulate what it looks like to a colorblind person. It simulates several different types of colorblindness. I have a friend who is colorblind, and to the best of our mutual understanding, it is accurate.
- razorbeamz
As someone who is colorblind, I recommend testing accessibility with grayscale.
If it works in grayscale, it should work for basically all colorblindness types.
- chaps
Neat but still hard for me (red/green) to differentiate colors between some. The Merge + Tubulin one in particular.