"Christmas in a Prison Cell" by Amber

25 December 1997

I remember standing in a college dorm one Christmas season looking at a cafeteria menu with a couple of other people, one of whom was red-green color blind. In the spirit of the season, the people at the cafeteria had printed their menus in red text on green paper, resulting in the menu being completely illegible by the aformentioned color blind person.

So rather than do a cheesy Christmas page in nasty red and green colors, I'm going to point the way to a couple of resource pages for people who are concerned with the general readability of the web.

• Color Blindness, an Introduction
• Color Blindness, Another Introduction
• A Colour Blindness Page with Freaked Out Animated Gifs
• International Color Vision Society
• An Essay On Color Deficiency

So Ho Ho Ho and have a good day and all that, but be sure to remember that today's artsy color schemes are tomorrow's headaches.

Speaking of headaches, go to My Christmas-Free Pages.

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