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Products: Searchable Online Accommodation Resource provides contact details for United States makers and suppliers of assistive devices.

Appearance: Colorblindness: Colorblindness is typically a genetic condition, and it is much more common in men than in women. Approximately one in 12 men has at least some color perception problems. Less common, acquired deficiencies stem from injury, disease, or the aging process. How do things look?

Aspects of Perception: Illustrates how people with less than three types of cones can confuse different wavelengths.

Children's Vision: Color Vision Deficiency: Describes signs, testing, causes, types, and disadvantages. From the Optometric Physicians of Washington (OPW).

CNN: New eyeglasses designed to help people with colorblindness: When optometrist Frank Siciliano, O.D., first saw an advertisement for ColorMax eyeglass lenses, he took more than a professional interest. Siciliano, who runs the Belmont Eye Clinic in Youngstown, Ohio, is colorblind himself and knows the frustration of not being able to see the world in full, b...

Color Blindness: Professional information on color blindness, related conditions and tests.

Color Blindness: Color blindness may be a hereditary condition or caused by disease of the optic nerve or retina.

Color Blindness: Identifies many conditions which can cause color problems. Includes information on diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis.

Color Blindness: Information on Color Blindness including Color Blindness symptoms and Color Blindness tests options.

Color Vision: Presentation about normal vision. Includes spectra, eye anatomy and color response curves.

Color Vision: Discusses school difficulties from low color vision, as well as inheritance and safety considerations.

Color Vision Changes Signal Blood Glucose Fluctuations: Diabetes Health - Complications: Eye Care (Retinopathy). Type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes, diabetes causes, diabetes treatments and medication, celebrities with diabetes. Diabetes news articles, videos, blogs and more.

Color Vision Confusion: Explains how web pages can be designed to avoid problems for those with colorblindness. Includes color wheels and references for design tutorials.

Color Vision Screen: "A high-content public reference for eye diseases, diagnosis, evaluation and treatment"

Color Vision Test Detects Diabetic Retinopathy Before Vision is Lost: to ID those who will progress to develop more severe retinal disease

Colorblind: Information on colorblindness including a self test to help determine if you may be colorblind

Colorblind HomePage: Explains mechanics and physiology, and includes color wheels to simulate what the disabled see.

Colorblindness: This page provides extensive information on colorblindness and a list of links for further research

Colors for the Color Blind: Color chart for the color blind - specifically for selecting web safe colors on the computer.

Colour Blindness: Wikipedia article includes a simple diagnostic test, rates of incidence, causes, and types of deficiency.

Disability Action Centre: A fact sheet from the Royal Mail in the United Kingdom provides advice for workers.

Drugs Affecting Color Vision: Lists common medications that are thought to contribute to this condition.

Explaining Color Deficiency: Colorblindness explained + On-line tests, including testing children

FDA Talk Paper: ColorMax Lenses: ColorMax, eyeglass lenses, color blindness

Firelily Designs: Pictures to approximate what the patient sees. Article about color problems, causes, and compensation with web design or browser settings.

Gene Research on Cure for Colorblindness: Dr. Jay Neitz and his colleagues have identified the types of gene mutations that underlie colorblindness. By inserting normal genes into the retina, they hope one day to be able to give color vision to people who've lost it -- or never had it.

Looking for Madam Tetrachromat: Considers the possibility of superior color vision. Also discusses color deficiencies. Plain text, but includes URLs for links.

Mayo Clinic: Poor Color Vision: Poor color vision — Comprehensive overview covers causes, diagnosis of colorblindness.

More Prevalent Among Males: Research and articles about the sense of vision. Learn more about how humans see, how the eye works, color blindness, and more. From the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Seeing Color: Explanation of how we see colors. Learn what are rod cells. Why cone cells in the eye help humans perceive colors.

Severity of Colorblindness Varies: Colorblindness is the inability to distinguish hues that are seen as different by people with normal color vision. There are several types of colorblindness and the severity of the condition varies from individual to individual.

Vischeck: Vischeck color blindness simulator

Visolve: Software utility that transforms colors of the computer display into the discriminable colors for people with color blindness.