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Color Blindness

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Subtopics:      Color Blindness > Achromatopsia          Color Blindness > Books
Color Blindness > Dalton Color Blindness > International Color Vision Society
 
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      new window Vischeck  [Recommended]   Description: See the world as color blind people see it. Can also simulate the effects of distance or different monitor types. (vischeck.com)
new window Appearance: Colorblindness Description: How things look to someone who is colorblind. Overview of tests and genetics. (webexhibits.org)
new window Ask A Biologist Description: Color tests for eyes with or without the condition. (askabiologist.asu.edu)
new window Chromagen Tinted Soft Contact Lens Description: "FDA cleared" product to help the color blind and dyslexic. FAQs, testiomonials, vision centers (one in the USA). (chromagenvision.com)
new window Color Blindness Description: Professional information on color blindness, related conditions and tests. Concludes that "No treatment is available for any form of inherited color vision deficiency." (eyemdlink.com)
new window Color Blindness Description: Account from afflicted individual. Many links. (mark.melnick.name)
new window Color blindness Description: Information from Cataract & Laser Institute. Signs & Symptoms, Detection & Diagnosis, Treatment. (stlukeseye.com)
new window Color Blindness: Treatment Description: Paragraph may trigger pop-ups. Links to test plate or poster sales, and information on the X-Chrom lens. (angelfire.com)
new window Color Vision Description: Presentation about normal vision. Includes spectra, eye anatomy and color response curves. (photo.net)
new window Color Vision Confusion Description: Focuses on "universal usability" in web page design. Many references (links). (otal.umd.edu)
new window Color Vision Recorder Description: Software for eye care pro's. Tests for condition and tracks results of the Farnsworth or Lanthony's desaturated D15 tests. (opticaldiagnostics.com)
new window Colorblind Description: Short facts on condition. Links to self-diagnostic test. (tjshome.com)
new window Colorblindness and . . .Types Description: Explains mechanics and physiology, and includes color wheels to simulate what the disabled see. (members.aol.com)
new window Colorblindness information page Description: Includes an Ishihara plate, information from those disabled and their relatives, and links to media articles. Names of colors appear in the color. (dai-sho.com)
new window Colorblindness prosthesis, per CNN Description: Describes optometrist and lenses he invented to "improve his red-green colorblindness" (dai-sho.com)
new window ColorMax Lenses Description: FDA talk paper intended to help agency people answer questions on product. (fda.gov)
new window Colour Vision Testing Description: Leading UK colour vision consultant offers tests for education, careers, employment and safety-related professions. (vortex.mech.surrey.ac.uk)
new window Colour Vision Testing - Cambridge Colour Test Description: Advanced test. Requires special hardware. (crsltd.com)
new window Creamer Color Chart Description: Screening test for the early detection of red-green colorblindness in children. (colorblindtest.com)
new window CVRL Color & Vision database Description: an annotated library of downloads for color and vision research. Color Vision Research Laboratory information is primarily scientific and technical. (cvision.ucsd.edu)
new window Disability Advice Centre fact sheet - colour blindness Description: 4-page Royal Mail (UK) pdf about the disability. Includes useful URLs. (consignia.com)
new window Drugs affecting color vision Description: Chart lists drugs affecting color vision. Ibuprofen (Advil) makes it worse. (richmondproducts.com)
new window Explanation, with online tests Description: Includes chart, tables, and pictures. (members.shaw.ca)
new window EyeDropper Description: 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. (inetia.com)
new window FDA talk paper Description: U.S. Department position on 'colormax' lenses to ameliorate red-green color deficiency. (dai-sho.com)
new window Firelily Designs - Color Vision, Color Deficiency Description: Pictures to approximate what the afflicted see. Article about color problems, causes, and compensation with web design or browser settings. (firelily.com)
new window Gene Research on Cure for Colorblindness Description: Animal trials insert normal genes into the retina using a retrovirus, to give color vision. (healthlink.mcw.edu)
new window HealthLink MCW Description: An article about the severity of this ailment. (healthlink.mcw.edu)
new window Information & Products Description: Addresses and links for makers and sellers of products to accomodate color vision problems. (jan.wvu.edu)
new window Information about Color Vision Description: About C. V. Deficiency: J. Lauri's page about condition. includes bibliography. (hometown.aol.com)
new window Ishihara 14 page Color Blindness Book Description: A top-seller at Kappa Medical products. (kappamedical.net)
new window Ishihara color blindness test Description: Page sells books, allows PayPal. (kappamedical.com)
new window Ishihara Test Description: Classic diagnostic for the condition. (toledo-bend.com)
new window List of genetic disorders - Wikipedia Description: Entry lists colorblindness as a point mutation in the X chromosome. Links to details. (en2.wikipedia.org)
new window Medical College develops genetic test for colorblindness Description: Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Journal Sentinel story of test licensed to ColorMax. "A major breakthrough." (jsonline.com)
new window Medical Genetics - X-linked Recessive: Red-Green Color Blindness, Hemophilia A Description: Inheritance of the condition, and similar mechanism in hemophilia. (musckids.com)
new window More Prevalent Among Males Description: Short article tells how disease evolved. (hhmi.org)
new window Normal and Defective Colour Vision Description: Book for sale: 456pp, 4 color plates. Eds Mollon, Pokorny, and Knoblauch, (62.5 pounds) (oup.co.uk)
new window Pingelap: Island of the Colorblind Description: Student paper focuses on Achromatopsia, but also discusses Protanomaly and Deuteranomaly. Color wheels as seen by those with the conditions. Links to references. (serendip.brynmawr.edu)
new window Poor color vision Description: Mayo Clinic staff article includes overview, causes, when to seek medical advice, screening and diagnosis, treatment, and coping skills. (mayoclinic.com)
new window Probers fear co-pilot in FedEx crash is colorblind Description: (AP) Officials are investigating color-deficient co-pilot after plane crash. (knoxnews.com)
new window Pseudoisochromatic Plates Comparison Chart Description: Chart compares color vision tests. Links to related information. (richmondproducts.com)
new window Red-green color blindness in humans Description: Tutorial from sex-linked inheritance problem set provides college-level explaination. Includes graphics (biology.arizona.edu)
new window The X-Chrom lens: a case study Description: Paragraph from Australian Optometrists Association describing patient fitted with a color contact. (optometrists.asn.au)
new window Umist Eye System Description: Extensive colour vision test from the UK. (umist.ac.uk)
new window What's Color Blindness? Description: KidsHealth ("For Kids") article written and peer-reviewed by Physicians. (kidshealth.org)
new window When Is a Disabled Employee Qualified? Description: 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) (lfhc.com)
new window Wikipedia Description: ("The Free Encyclopedia") article on subject. Includes a simple diagnostic test, rates of incidence, causes, types of deficiency, and other tests. (en.wikipedia.org)
 




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