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From: Emma Duke-Williams
Date: Tue, Mar 17 2009 11:05AM
Subject: Christine Rigdence's Colour Blindness Charts.
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I've pointed students in the past to the colour charts that Christine
Rigdence had on the BT website - for those that don't know them,
they've got the standard set of web safe colours reproduced as people
with different types of colour blindness see them.
BT seem to re-organise their site on a fairly regular basis & now I
can't find them at all!
They're currently archived at http://is.gd/nJqq (Archive.org page) -
and they've had various other URLs over the years.
Does anyone know where they currently are, or a different site with
the same stuff. (I also point them to sites like Visibone - but that's
really only useful after students have picked colours; these charts
were good for getting them to think before they selected colours.

Thanks for your help.

Emma
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School of Computing/ Faculty eLearning Co-ordinator, University of
Portsmouth, UK.
Blog: http://userweb.port.ac.uk/~duke-wie/blog/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/emmadw
SL: Emmadw Rickenbacker

From: Jon Gibbins
Date: Tue, Mar 17 2009 11:30AM
Subject: Re: Christine Rigdence's Colour Blindness Charts.
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Emma Duke-Williams wrote:
> I've pointed students in the past to the colour charts that Christine
> Rigdence had on the BT website - for those that don't know them,
> they've got the standard set of web safe colours reproduced as people
> with different types of colour blindness see them.
> BT seem to re-organise their site on a fairly regular basis & now I
> can't find them at all!
> They're currently archived at http://is.gd/nJqq (Archive.org page) -
> and they've had various other URLs over the years.
> Does anyone know where they currently are, or a different site with
> the same stuff. (I also point them to sites like Visibone - but that's
> really only useful after students have picked colours; these charts
> were good for getting them to think before they selected colours.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Emma

Hi Emma,

The page you referenced seems to have moved here:
http://www.btplc.com/inclusion/Gettingonline/Accessible/Adviceforwebdevelopers/palette.htm

But Google indexes this page, which seems to redirect to a useful
landing page on BT's site:
http://www.bt.com/colourvision/

Jon



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From: Emma Duke-Williams
Date: Wed, Mar 18 2009 3:20AM
Subject: Re: Christine Rigdence's Colour Blindness Charts.
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> From: Jon Gibbins < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >

> The page you referenced seems to have moved here:
> http://www.btplc.com/inclusion/Gettingonline/Accessible/Adviceforwebdevelopers/palette.htm
>
> But Google indexes this page, which seems to redirect to a useful
> landing page on BT's site:
> http://www.bt.com/colourvision/

Thanks to Jon for that URL; someone else also knows Christine & asked
her directly - she's now left BT & so has put them on her own site -
http://www.rigdenage.co.uk/safecolours/

Emma
--
Emma Duke-Williams:
School of Computing/ Faculty eLearning Co-ordinator, University of
Portsmouth, UK.
Blog: http://userweb.port.ac.uk/~duke-wie/blog/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/emmadw
SL: Emmadw Rickenbacker