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Web Sites in Category Color Blindness
Vischeck  - See the world as color blind people see it. Can also simulate the effects of distance or different monitor types.
Appearance: Colorblindness - How things look to someone who is colorblind. Overview of tests and genetics.
Ask A Biologist - Color tests for eyes with or without the condition.
Chromagen Tinted Soft Contact Lens - "FDA cleared" product to help the color blind and dyslexic. FAQs, testiomonials, vision centers (one in the USA).
Color Blindness - Professional information on color blindness, related conditions and tests. Concludes that "No treatment is available for any form of inherited color vision deficiency."
Color blindness - Information from Cataract & Laser Institute. Signs & Symptoms, Detection & Diagnosis, Treatment.
Color blindness - Wikipedia - "Free Encyclopedia" entry. Includes (web) design implications.
Color Blindness: Treatment - Paragraph may trigger pop-ups. Links to test plate or poster sales, and information on the X-Chrom lens.
Color Blindness: More Prevalent Among Males - Short article tells how disease evolved.
Color Vision - Presentation about normal vision. Includes spectra, eye anatomy and color response curves.
Color Vision Recorder - Software for eye care pro's. Tests for condition and tracks results of the Farnsworth or Lanthony's desaturated D15 tests.
Colorblind - Short facts on condition. Links to self-diagnostic test.
Colorblindness and . . .Types - Explains mechanics and physiology, and includes color wheels to simulate what the disabled see.
Colorblindness information page - Includes an Ishihara plate, information from those disabled and their relatives, and links to media articles. Names of colors appear in the color.
Colorblindness prosthesis, per CNN - Describes optometrist and lenses he invented to "improve his red-green colorblindness"
ColorMax Lenses - FDA talk paper intended to help agency people answer questions on product.
Colour Vision Testing - Leading UK colour vision consultant offers tests for education, careers, employment and safety-related professions.
Creamer Color Chart - Screening test for the early detection of red-green colorblindness in children.
CVRL Color & Vision database - an annotated library of downloads for color and vision research. Color Vision Research Laboratory information is primarily scientific and technical.
Disability Advice Centre fact sheet - colour blindness - 4-page Royal Mail (UK) pdf about the disability. Includes useful URLs.
Drugs affecting color vision - Chart lists drugs affecting color vision. Ibuprofen (Advil) makes it worse.
Explanation, with online tests - Includes chart, tables, and pictures.
EyeDropper - free program works with Windows to let you know the color of any part a PC screen. Allows removing background images and the adjustment of text to black & white.
FDA talk paper - U.S. Department position on 'colormax' lenses to ameliorate red-green color deficiency.
Firelily Designs - Color Vision, Color Deficiency - Pictures to approximate what the afflicted see. Article about color problems, causes, and compensation with web design or browser settings.
Gene Research on Cure for Colorblindness - Animal trials insert normal genes into the retina using a retrovirus, to give color vision.
HealthLink MCW - An article about the severity of this ailment.
Information & Products - Addresses and links for makers and sellers of products to accomodate color vision problems.
Information about Color Vision - About C. V. Deficiency: J. Lauri's page about condition. includes bibliography.
International Colour Vision Society - physiologists, psychologists, physicists, geneticists, optometrists, ophthalmologists and others who have a research interest in colour vision or deficiency
Ishihara Test - Classic diagnostic for the condition.
Job-Hunting for the So-Called Handicapped or People Who Have Disabilities - Markets paperback by Bolles (author of the extremely popular job-hunting book, What Color is Your Parachute?)
List of genetic disorders - Wikipedia - Entry lists colorblindness as a point mutation in the X chromosome. Links to details.
Medical College develops genetic test for colorblindness - Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Journal Sentinel story of test licensed to ColorMax. "A major breakthrough."
Medical Genetics - X-linked Recessive: Red-Green Color Blindness, Hemophilia A - Inheritance of the condition, and similar mechanism in hemophilia.
Poor color vision - Mayo Clinic staff article includes overview, causes, when to seek medical advice, screening and diagnosis, treatment, and coping skills.
Probers fear co-pilot in FedEx crash is colorblind - (AP) Officials are investigating color-deficient co-pilot after plane crash.
Pseudoisochromatic Plates Comparison Chart - Chart compares color vision tests. Links to related information.
Red-green color blindness in humans - Tutorial from sex-linked inheritance problem set provides college-level explaination. Includes graphics
The X-Chrom lens: a case study - Paragraph from Australian Optometrists Association describing patient fitted with a color contact.
Umist Eye System - Extensive colour vision test from the UK.
What's Color Blindness? - KidsHealth ("For Kids") article written and peer-reviewed by Physicians.
When Is a Disabled Employee Qualified? - Shannon v. NY Transit Auth., was a bus driver whose employer found he was color-blind. Considers disability under the (US) Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
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