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Achromatopsia
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Vischeck: See the world as color blind people see it. Can also simulate the effects of distance or different monitor types.
Products: Addresses and links for makers and sellers of products to accomodate color vision problems.
Vision database: an annotated library of downloads for color and vision research. Color Vision Research Laboratory information is primarily scientific and technical.
Appearance: Colorblindness: How things look to someone who is colorblind. Overview of tests and genetics.
Ask A Biologist: Color tests for eyes with or without the condition.
Chromagen Tinted Soft Contact Lens: FDA cleared product to help the color blind and dyslexic. FAQs, testiomonials, vision centers (one in the USA).
Color Blindness: Professional information on color blindness, related conditions and tests. Concludes that No treatment is available for any form of inherited color vision deficiency.
Color blindness: Information from Cataract Laser Institute. Signs Symptoms, Detection Diagnosis, Treatment.
Color blindness: Wikipedia (The Free Encyclopedia) article on subject. Includes a simple diagnostic test, rates of incidence, causes, types of deficiency, and other tests.
Color Blindness: Account from afflicted individual. Many links.
Color blindness - Wikipedia: Free Encyclopedia entry. Includes (web) design implications.
Color Blindness: Treatment: Paragraph may trigger pop-ups. Links to test plate or poster sales, and information on the X-Chrom lens.
Color Vision: Presentation about normal vision. Includes spectra, eye anatomy and color response curves.
Color Vision Confusion: Focuses on universal usability in web page design. Many references (links).
Color Vision Recorder: Software for eye care pro's. Tests for condition and tracks results of the Farnsworth or Lanthony's desaturated D15 tests.
Colorblind: Short facts on condition. Links to self-diagnostic test.
Colorblindness and . . .Types: Explains mechanics and physiology, and includes color wheels to simulate what the disabled see.
Colorblindness information page: Includes an Ishihara plate, information from those disabled and their relatives, and links to media articles. Names of colors appear in the color.
Colorblindness prosthesis, per CNN: Describes optometrist and lenses he invented to improve his red-green colorblindness
ColorMax Lenses: FDA talk paper intended to help agency people answer questions on product.
Colour Vision Testing: Leading UK colour vision consultant offers tests for education, careers, employment and safety-related professions.
Creamer Color Chart: Screening test for the early detection of red-green colorblindness in children.
Dalton: biography of Quaker who discovered (and wrote about) condition. Daltonism is named after him. Includes sidebar about Color Blindness
Dalton: by Webster's Online, includes ads, Wiki entry, and references.
Dalton: page from the 1998 History of Electrochemistry calendar includes signature and (monochrome) portrait
Dalton, John: Wikipedia entry on famous chemist-biologist-astronomer-writer who discovered color defeciency in brother and self.
Dalton, John (1766 - 1844): One-page biography, with pictures. he regarded himself as merely a school teacher
Disability Advice Centre fact sheet - colour blindness: 4-page Royal Mail (UK) pdf about the disability. Includes useful URLs.
Drugs affecting color vision: Chart lists drugs affecting color vision. Ibuprofen (Advil) makes it worse.
Explanation, with online tests: Includes chart, tables, and pictures.
EyeDropper: free program works with Windows to let you know the color of any part a PC screen. Allows removing background images and the adjustment of text to black white.
FDA talk paper: U.S. Department position on 'colormax' lenses to ameliorate red-green color deficiency.
Firelily Designs - Color Vision, Color Deficiency: Pictures to approximate what the afflicted see. Article about color problems, causes, and compensation with web design or browser settings.
Gene Research on Cure for Colorblindness: Animal trials insert normal genes into the retina using a retrovirus, to give color vision.
HealthLink MCW: An article about the severity of this ailment.
Information about Color Vision: About C. V. Deficiency: J. Lauri's page about condition. includes bibliography.
International Colour Vision Society: physiologists, psychologists, physicists, geneticists, optometrists, ophthalmologists and others who have a research interest in colour vision or deficiency
Ishihara color blindness test: Page sells books, allows PayPal.
Ishihara Test: Classic diagnostic for the condition.
Job-Hunting for the So-Called Handicapped or People Who Have Disabilities: Markets paperback by Bolles (author of the extremely popular job-hunting book, What Color is Your Parachute?)
List of genetic disorders - Wikipedia: Entry lists colorblindness as a point mutation in the X chromosome. Links to details.
Medical College develops genetic test for colorblindness: Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Journal Sentinel story of test licensed to ColorMax. A major breakthrough.
Medical Genetics - X-linked Recessive: Red-Green Color Blindness, Hemophilia A: Inheritance of the condition, and similar mechanism in hemophilia.
More Prevalent Among Males: Short article tells how disease evolved.
Pingelap: Island of the Colorblind: Student paper focuses on Achromatopsia, but also discusses Protanomaly and Deuteranomaly. Color wheels as seen by those with the conditions. Links to references.
Poor color vision: Mayo Clinic staff article includes overview, causes, when to seek medical advice, screening and diagnosis, treatment, and coping skills.
Probers fear co-pilot in FedEx crash is colorblind: (AP) Officials are investigating color-deficient co-pilot after plane crash.
Pseudoisochromatic Plates Comparison Chart: Chart compares color vision tests. Links to related information.
Red-green color blindness in humans: Tutorial from sex-linked inheritance problem set provides college-level explaination. Includes graphics
The X-Chrom lens: a case study: Paragraph from Australian Optometrists Association describing patient fitted with a color contact.
Umist Eye System: Extensive colour vision test from the UK.
What's Color Blindness?: KidsHealth (For Kids) article written and peer-reviewed by Physicians.
When Is a Disabled Employee Qualified?: Shannon v. NY Transit Auth., was a bus driver whose employer found he was color-blind. Considers disability under the (US) Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

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