(color) Accessibility Checking Tools?

[gaiaswind]

Hi y'all!

So I'm currently working on my thesis layout via publisher (going great, btw). One of the aspects is accessible design in printing. So I was wondering - wouldn't it be great to be able to test-view the document in different color-blindness modes? Or even visual-impairment? I know there is workarounds for this.

I just believe preparing good tools in-software to produce accessible design shows how much the company behind the tool values or at least acknowledges these principles.

What do you think?

Linda

[GripsholmLion]

I'm very late in contributing to this (I watched your post at the time and then... forgot).

You may not know that the default LUTs in Photo – if you have it in addition to Publisher – contain simulations of Deuteranopia, Tritanopia, and Protanopia. However, having never used Publisher, I don't know offhand whether the LUT adjustment is available directly in its Photo persona.

There is also a much rarer group of conditions which are categorised as monochromacy, but they should be easier to approximate with a neutral B+W adjustment which preserves brightness values.

[walt.farrell]

20 hours ago, GripsholmLion said:

However, having never used Publisher, I don't know offhand whether the LUT adjustment is available directly in its Photo persona.

Yes, they are available in the Photo Persona in Publisher.

[gaiaswind]

Thanks, you both!

As I am not really working with images that much so I don't really use photo (or its persona). I guess I will check it out.