Colourblind gamers and developers ignorance in programming

yes im fully aware of what he said and i wasnt trolling. I have a colour blind friend and this is a bonus that its got that option. So please dont start stirring **** just because its a cod game. Also when i said biggest i was meaning sales which no doubt it will be. really some people really have to get a life
 
This might also sound stupid but could you not badly calibrate your monitor? :o

What about colour correction in your drivers?
 
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I believe PC games mostly don't use the colour profiles in Windows. Games are not usually "Colour Aware" applications, you're stuck with whatever set up you can create via the monitor settings.

Some monitors with colour blindness simulation modes exist (EIZO is an obvious example) but they tend to be v. expensive and may not be of any use with content that has already been created.
 
This might sound like a strange suggestion but can't you alter the colour displayed on screen using CCC/NV panel or built-in PC Monitor software?

Granted, it may take a while to get something suitable, in theory: could it work?
 
I was just thinking surely there's software available that will change the colour palette of the whole PC for various types of colour blindness? Then you could play any game and not rely on the devs putting specific code in.
 
Not being funny but it's not down to games developers to include colour blind modes as a matter of course. Some do, some do not.

If you want a catch-all solution then sort it out through dedicated drivers/software or go as far as buying a specialised monitor.

Developers are not ignorant to colour blind modes, they just make an informed decision on whether to include them. If it's going to be too complex/cost too much/take too much time it will be omitted. Ignorance is expecting that all developers should include it or even that they care to for what will be a minority of the playerbase.
 
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Contact them and politely explain that by not providing a colorblind option, they are technically in breach of the 2010 Disability and Equality Act. I say technically because as per usual the definition of whether colourblindness is a disability is a case of pot luck.

The Act basically makes it illegal for any service or product to be unusable or very difficult to use by a disabled person. Since they're offering a product and since your colorblindness effects your ability to use that product, you could at least argue a case. Any web developer worth their salt knows this one inside out, since it's been a big issue since the early 2000's.

My friend is colourblind so I know how annoying it can be. He gets frustrated when I forget and tell him to "shoot the red one" or something.

On a side note, Team Fortress 2 has a colourblind option which changes effects like burning and Uber so they're not so reliant on colour.
 
soullessfire said:
Contact them and politely explain that by not providing a colorblind option, they are technically in breach of the 2010 Disability and Equality Act. I say technically because as per usual the definition of whether colourblindness is a disability is a case of pot luck.

The Act basically makes it illegal for any service or product to be unusable or very difficult to use by a disabled person. Any web developer worth their salt knows this one inside out, since it's been a big issue since the early 2000's.

My friend is colourblind so I know how annoying it can be. He gets frustrated when I forget and tell him to "shoot the red one" or something.

On a side note, Team Fortress 2 has a colourblind option which changes effects like burning and Uber so they're not so reliant on colour.
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Valve were nice enough to add a colourblind mode, but they got it totally wrong. The colourblind mode in TF2 is supposed to help distinguish what colour a person is when they've been jarate'd (which in the game is a jar of pee that you throw on someone, turning them yellow :p). For me at least, I can't tell this if this yellowed person is red or blue so it makes it hard to tell if it's an enemy or an ally.

Valve's solution was to add a jarate symbol above the head of the jarate'd player. This is completely useless because I can quite clearly see that the person is jarate'd. That isn't the problem. The symbol doesn't tell me which colour this person is, and that's the problem.

Still, at least they tried.
 
Disability and Equality act no doubt has some limitations and what would be deemed FAIR.

If a PC title relies on colour as a core part of the game then you are not going to get anywhere seeking damages for not being accommodated as a colour-blind person.

Much the same way you are not going to sue Glock as a no armed individual because you cannot fire their guns. (pun intended)

I would like to see it tested in court when there are at least 4 other layers between the game and you seeing it which can affect colour reproduction. That being driver level, the graphics card hardware itself, monitor hardware and colour profiles. The game developer could argue this quite comfortably as a defence I imagine.
 
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If that was true, disabled people would be taking Halfords to court for selling bikes they can't use.
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No, the DDA works on a case by case basis, and relies on the "reasonableness" of the changes required. It doesn't require equal treatment in all cases. Painters wouldn't have to paint in braille and people who make bikes wouldn't have to do anything different to accommodate wheelchair users.

A blind person making this argument wouldn't have a chance, but since the changes to these games might just be as simple as having an ini file with half a dozen colour values, then the reasonableness of asking a development company to accommodate this is clearny pretty high.

This applies in web development too, using color only to differentiate parts of your site, and especially links (they should be bolded or underlined or something more than just colour) would be open to challenge under the DDA.
 
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