A designer's guide to colour and accessibility

A little-known fact: colour blindness doesn't mean a person sees the world without colour: it's actually a decreased ability to distinguish particular hues from one another. It's much more common in men than women: around 8-10% of the male population has some sort of colour blindness.

For that reason, colour should not be used as the only means of conveying information, indicating an action, prompting a response, or distinguishing a visual element. In this article, we'll run through a short list of things designers and developers can do to make websites more accessible to the colour blind.

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