Open Directory - Health: Conditions and Diseases: Eye Disorders: Color Blindness
- How things look to someone who is colorblind. Overview of tests and genetics. - Illustrates "how people with less than three types of cones can confuse different wavelengths." - Describes signs, testing, causes, types, and disadvantages. From the Optometric Physicians of Washington (OPW). - Presents symptoms, causes, types, and tests. Includes a form for questioning an optometrist. - Presentation about normal vision. Includes spectra, eye anatomy and color response curves. - Explains how web pages can be designed to avoid problems for those with colorblindness. Includes color wheels and references for design tutorials. - Pilot Medical Solutions provides FAA medical certification support for pilots and aviation medical examiners. - Short facts on condition. Links to self-diagnostic test. - Explains mechanics and physiology, and includes color wheels to simulate what the disabled see. - Provides background information and a set of charts to help those working with computer colors. - Wikipedia article includes a simple diagnostic test, rates of incidence, causes, and types of deficiency. - Includes a color vision test which may help the visitor to assess whether he/she is able to see colors correctly. - Pictures to approximate what the patient sees. Article about color problems, causes, and compensation with web design or browser settings. - Includes overview, causes, screening, diagnosis, treatment, and coping skills. - A report from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute explains how the condition is inherited. - Arizona State University provides definitions and tests. - DISCOVER Magazine reports, "Color-blind monkeys make better insect hunters." Includes pictures of what the colorblind (do not) see, and Pseudoisochromatic plate. - Allows the user to see the world as color blind people see it. Checks by images and urls. - Software utility that transforms colors of the computer display into the discriminable colors for people with color blindness. - Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers give human color vision to mice. (March 23, 2007) - to ID those who will progress to develop more severe retinal disease (June 12, 2003) - Presents the views of an optometrist and ophthalmologist. (April 21, 2000) - 70% of young type 1 patients without retinopathy have color vision changes. (January 15, 1996)
