Fourteenth International Conference on Design Principles & Practices

Abstract

Colourblindness is a condition in which the person affected confuses between certain shades of colour in visual interfaces when they come in contact with each other in adverse lighting conditions. Computer interfaces consist of a large amount of visual data. So, a colourblind person exposed to any of the conflicting colour schemes in a computer interface would be missing out on information which might even be critical. The purpose behind the advent of GUI in computers was to provide easy access of its features to users in order to increase work efficiency. As the GUI evolved, the accessibility options were expanded to cater extreme user categories. However, there is still a scope of improvement in the area of colourblindness. This paper intends to study the problems faced/likely to occur to colourblind users in a computer interface. The objective is to come up with design solutions to include colourblind users as mainstream user category in GUIs and expand the user base of the existing operating system.