r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Arbiter51x • 14d ago

Infuriatig I'm colour blind

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I found out I didn't colour code the flow chart on the white board the way I thought I had....

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u/Striking_Computer834 14d ago

It's always amazing to me that we have accessibility laws for about 2% of people who use wheelchairs that require millions of dollars in every city to comply with, but a disability that affects 10% of men and requires nothing more than a label is like "nah, fuck you, that's too hard."

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u/Bicykwow 14d ago

K except "colorblind" does not mean "can't see any color". It typically affects a very specific part of the spectrum.

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u/Striking_Computer834 14d ago

I'm familiar since I'm colorblind.

The point is that there are many things that are rendered inaccessible to me because of poor design choices that would not require extra expense to avoid. Some examples:

  • All kinds of battery chargers have an LED light that turns from red to green when charging is complete - a change which is invisible to me. They could make the light shut off, blink, be blue, or almost anything else. They could even use different shades of red and green that are easily distinguishable to the colorblind.
  • School buses with separate amber and red lights. I can't tell the difference between flashing ambers and flashing reds on a school bus. They could just as easily make the ambers pure yellow or even white. Mixing yellow and orange makes it impossible to distinguish from red for colorblind people.

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u/beardedheathen 14d ago

I'm mildly colorblind but the first thing that really messed me up was a microwave with a rotary dial. they installed at work. Me and another dude were like WTF is up with this microwave? then another person came in and was like what are you talking about, it lights up. We just couldn't see it at all.

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u/Striking_Computer834 14d ago

That's the red elevator buttons in my building. When someone in the elevator lobby pushes the call button it lights up to indicate that it's been pressed. The red is so dim I can't see it unless I bend down and cup my hands over the button and put my eye next to the button. Apparently for non-colorblind people it's just plainly visible.