Simulate color blindness for accessibility
It would be nice to be able to quickly check my work for accessibility. A button group/panel that lets me switch between protanopia, deuteranopia, tritanopia, and monochromacy would be really useful. Arguably, a monochromatic view is useful outside of accessibility, allowing one to check the tonal or value relationships in a design. This feature is not only applicable in Illustrator but across many of your products.
Constantine Georgiadis
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On limited views of Illustrator objects, you can check color accessibility with the free script https://github.com/creold/illustrator-scripts/blob/master/md/Color.md#colorblindsimulator
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On the other hand, Proof Setup offers very little.
Protanopia and Deuteranopia are just basic variations, and some are still unavailable to us.Take a look at Figma:
Protanomaly, Deuteranomaly, Tritanomaly (when 2 there are 2 good cones, but 1 is not); Tritanopia (for no-blue dichromats); Achromatomaly and Achromatopsia (1 good cone only).This repository covers is better than Adobe: https://github.com/skratchdot/color-blind
Also, what about an ability to apply proof colors to the design, to 'bake' them? When proposing a design to client, decision to use this or that color scheme are also made with color anomalies in mind, and these CUD-designs should be presented somehow. Acrobat Reader can’t soft-proof, and decision makers often don’t have access to Acrobat Pro, and some do not even know how to set it up.
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Constantine, View > Proof Setup has what you want, except for the tritanopia and monochromatic (which is not as simple, actually, because there are several ways of sucking the color out). Voted for these.
