Analysis of Simulators and Assistive Technologies Which Support Designers to See Like Colorblinds

• Main Authors: Bruno Santana da Silva, Gilmar Vitor da Silva Andrade, Joseh Augusto Dantas Salgado Pinto
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro 2017-09-01
• Series: Ergodesign & HCI
• Online Access: http://periodicos.puc-rio.br/index.php/revistaergodesign-hci/article/view/357

Several kinds of colorblindness limit color perception and affect how people interact with the world, especially when colors have meanings. Even with empathy, non colorblind designers have difficulties to conceive accessible interfaces for colorblind users, because they perceive colors in a different way from users. This work analyses how colorblind simulators and assistive technology can support user interface design. We conduct a search for free software on Google, on Android app store and on Chrome extension store. We identified 4 types of colorblindness simulators (filters of image, screen, sites and mobile device camera) and 3 types of assistive technologies (web sites, mobile app and CSS editor). Secrecy, internet access, time of use and other factors were considered to analyze the use of these simulators and assistive technologies as support for user interface static and dynamic analysis, during formative and summative evaluations.