Strategy: Colours for Presentations
6 Keywords: Colour Blindness, Colour Deficiency, Red/green, Web Colours, Presentations, PowerPoint
"I tend to use blue as this is usually a safe colour for presentations and when developing web pages if you have a colour deficiency - blue, pale colours. When items are highlighted, the text goes white on a blue background."
To show you how this looks I have made a PowerPoint presentation about colour deficiencies - it is avaialble for download and as a flash file seen below.
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"It wasn’t until I had my vision tested that I discovered I had a green colour deficiency and so colour overload is a problem, such as occurs in some pie-charts."
- JimTip
'Testing the Readability of Web Page Colours' is an article on the subject but it is also possible to use an automated Colour Contrast Analyser developed by Juicy Studio that makes colour selection easy. There is also the Accessibility Colour Wheel
