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Re: Christine Rigdence's Colour Blindness Charts.

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From: Jon Gibbins
Date: Mar 17, 2009 11:30AM

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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