Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Auto color blind conversion in Chrome Daltonize!

If you are color blind, then you may not be able to see the contrast others see in images online. Awesome developers at Chrome have created a program that assists in creating contrast for those with different types of color blindness. I, myself am not color blind, but I know some who are and I thought this application might come in handy. Chrome Daltonize is a very small application that can be added to the Chrome Web Browser that automatically loads web pages so that they are color-blind friendly. Whether you are protanope, deuteranope or tritanope, the web, including pictures can be loaded to fit your eyesight. Although I have read that the tritanope conversion is not very accurate. Chrome Daltonize can be loaded manually on desired pages or can be set to automatically convert web pages upon load! This works for most images and text, but does not for videos. Also, this is only available in the Chrome web browser, to the best of my knowledge.
So here is a quick rundown of how to acquire and use this very simple program:
Go to the link above which will direct you to the app. Note: you must be using Chrome for this to work).
Click on the App button and a notification will pop up that looks like-uh this:




Click Install and then Chrome will automatically put an icon in the top right of your browser as an extension. It will look like this:




Right click on the icon for PC users or Command + click Mac users and a menu will appear like so:





Select options and a very brief set of options will appear.
If you would like your web pages to start automatically converting to your set preferences, then select run at page load.





There is also a drop down menu that will allow you to select what type of color blindness you would like Chrome Daltonize! to attempt to correct.





There are a few other simple things that can be changed, but this app is very focussed and created for one obvious purpose. Before you run off and get the FREE app, here is an example of how it will recreate images in order to enhance contrast, without losing too much of the original colors.

Here is the original image i selected:



And here is the image after it is automatically converted to suit the needs for someone who is a protanope:

and here is what the picture looks like when altered for deuteranopia:



Since I do not have any form of color blindness, I am unsure if my example really demonstrates the effectiveness of the app, so please let me know. Many people who do have color blindness have had lots off good things to say about this widely unknown app.
Please lemme know if you found this helpful or if you have a picture that better demonstrates the capabilities of this sweet app. Thanks!

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