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Netwd Health Directory
Color Blindness
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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.
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. "No treatment is available"
Color Blindness
Information on Color Blindness including Color Blindness symptoms and Color Blindness tests options.
Color Blindness
Account from afflicted individual. Many links.
Color blindness
Identifies many conditions which can cause color problems. Diagnosis, treatment, prognosis.
Color blindness
Information from Cataract & Laser Institute. Signs & Symptoms, Detection & Diagnosis, Treatment.
Color Blindness: Treatment
Paragraph may trigger pop-ups. Links to test plate or poster sales, and information on the X-Chrom lens.
Color Vision
Presentation about normal vision. Includes spectra, eye anatomy and color response curves.
Color Vision
Includes School Difficulties because of Color Vision difficulties, spectral response curves for normal and affected eyes, inheritance, safety considerations. FAQ's and links.
Color Vision Confusion
Focuses on "universal usability" in web page design. Many references (links).
Color Vision Molecular Genetics
Neitz Color Vision Lab "page" is gate to slide shows, other features.
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.
Colorblind Homepage
test your color vision on-line.
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, Partial, Deutan Series; CBD
OMIM (OnLine Mendalian Inheritance in Man) entry for Xq28. Abstracts of papers, mostly molecular genetics. References, edit history, contributor list.
Colorblindness prosthesis, per CNN
Describes optometrist and lenses he invented to "improve his red-green colorblindness"
Colour Vision Testing
UK consultant tests for education, careers, employment and safety-related professions.
Colour Vision Testing - Cambridge Colour Test
Advanced test. Requires special hardware.
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 Map: Query: OPN1MW
Highlights OPN1MW, a colorblindness gene. "You are here" ideogram. (NCBI)
HealthLink MCW
An article about the severity of this ailment.
Human Color Vision, 2nd Ed
Book for sale by The Optical Society of America (OSA). $85 for non-members.
I am Colorblind
experience of a colorblind person. Includes what you can do as a product/website creator, types of colorblindness and some sample vision tests.
Incomplete achromatopsia in Alzheimer's disease
[PubMed]
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.
Ishihara 14 page Color Blindness Book
A top-seller at Kappa Medical products.
Ishihara color blindness test
Page sells books, allows PayPal.
Ishihara Test
Classic diagnostic for the condition.
Medical Genetics - X-linked Recessive: Red-Green Color Blindness, Hemophilia A
Inheritance of the condition, and similar mechanism in hemophilia.
More Prevalent Among Males
Short article tells how disease evolved.
Normal and Defective Colour Vision
Book for sale: 456pp, 4 color plates. Eds Mollon, Pokorny, and Knoblauch, (62.5 pounds)
Pingelap: Island of the Colorblind
Student paper focuses on Achromatopsia, but also discusses Protanomaly and Deuteranomaly. Color wheels as seen by those with the conditions. Links to references.
Poor color vision
Mayo Clinic staff article includes overview, causes, when to seek medical advice, screening and diagnosis, treatment, and coping skills.
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
Seeing Color
Arizona State University Ask A Biologist site for K-12. Definitions. Links to color vision tests.
Topics in Usability
basic information, design tools, and corrective tool.
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)
Wikipedia
("The Free Encyclopedia") article on subject. Includes a simple diagnostic test, rates of incidence, causes, types of deficiency, and other tests.
The X-Chrom lens: a case study
Paragraph from Australian Optometrists Association describing patient fitted with a color contact.
Gene Research on Cure for Colorblindness
Animal trials insert normal genes into the retina using a retrovirus, to give color vision. (April 14, 2004)
Probers fear co-pilot in FedEx crash is colorblind
(AP) Officials are investigating color-deficient co-pilot after plane crash. (December 27, 2003)
Color Vision Test Detects Diabetic Retinopathy Before Vision is Lost
to ID those who will progress to develop more severe retinal disease (June 12, 2003)
Medical College develops genetic test for colorblindness
Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Journal Sentinel story of test licensed to ColorMax. "A major breakthrough." (November 16, 2000)
Looking for Madam Tetrachromat
considers the possibility of *superior* color vision. Also discusses color deficiencies. Plain text, but includes URLs for links. (November 1, 2000)
ColorMax Lenses
FDA talk paper intended to help agency people answer questions on product. (December 21, 1999)
Color Vision Changes Signal Blood Glucose Fluctuations
70% of young type I patients without retinopathy have color vision changes. Contact. [Diabetes Health] (January 15, 1996)
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