blindness

RGB filters for different forms of color blindness

My father is color blind and given that I work in games where the visuals are important, I've always wanted to write a filter for screen shots (or even some type of shader) that emulated different forms of color blindness. I've seen plenty of references but never have been able to track down algorithms. Any algorithms would be apprec...

Is there a way to convert indentation in Python code to braces?

I am a totally blind programmer who would like to learn Python. Unfortunately the fact that code blocks are represented with different levels of indentation is a major stumbling block. I was wondering if there were any tools available that would allow me to write code using braces or some other code block delimiter and then convert that ...

Colour blindness simulator

Like any responsible developer, I'd like to make sure that the sites I produce are accessible to the widest possible audience, and that includes the significant fraction of the population with some form of colour blindness. There are many websites which offer to filter a URL you feed it, either by rendering a picture or by filtering all...

How do the visually impared handle boot failures and other low-level environments

I know that screen readers and similar software exists to help the blind and visually impaired to use computers when in Windows or other operating systems. I am curious as to what support is available in lower level environments such as OS installers and BIOS setup etc. ...

Developing an iPhone app which is friendly to blind people

I've had a user send me an email to ask if I can make some modifications to my application so that it is more friendly to blind people. Although he's explained the problems that he is having, I really have no idea on how to approach this. I can't find any guidelines from Apple. Is there any information available, or does anyone have any ...