How to Enable Color Blind Accessability Mode

#1 - Sept. 28, 2011, 7:19 a.m.

Nice job adding it to the game blizzard!

Colorblind Shader is 0.
   0 - Disabled (Default)
   1 - Protanopia          (1% of males)
   2 - Protanomaly         (1% of males, 0.01% of females)
   3 - Deuteranopia        (1% of males)
   4 - Deuteranomaly       (6% of males, 0.4% of females)
   5 - Tritanopia          (rare)
   6 - Tritanomaly         (rare)
   7 - Achromatopsia       (very rare)
   8 - Achromatomaly       (very rare)

Type /console colorblindshader X
X being one of these modes that looks best for you

0 - OFF
http://i.imgur.com/r02cV.jpg

1 - Protanopia
http://i.imgur.com/neeIo.jpg

2 - Protanomaly
http://i.imgur.com/MuS8P.jpg

3 - Deuteranopia
http://i.imgur.com/xW8xz.jpg

4 - Deuteranomaly
http://i.imgur.com/zXJIW.jpg

5 - Tritanopia
http://i.imgur.com/DoHKf.jpg

6 - Tritanomaly
http://i.imgur.com/Un83x.jpg

7 - Achromatopsia
http://i.imgur.com/dnI4f.jpg

8 - Achromatomaly
http://i.imgur.com/y1gwV.jpg

Nethaera

Community Manager

#36 - Oct. 3, 2011, 4:33 p.m.

Hey all, we're glad that so many people are liking the shaders. Just as a reminder, there is also a Colorblind option within the interface (currently) that was introduced in patch 3.1. If you go into the interface options and select the "Help!" tab, you can select that option there too which gives more information via text for those that may need it.

Nethaera

Community Manager

#64 - Oct. 4, 2011, 4:37 p.m.

I just wanted to follow-up briefly about why these newer options are available to begin with.

Just to clarify these were intended to be used as a tool for addon developers to help make their addons more color-blind friendly. This is something we have already been using on our own end to test and help find parts of the game that may be difficult to see for those with color-blindness. While we haven’t fixed all the problems we would like to; we thought it was a useful enough tool that it would be added to our public version.

Sometimes we fix colorblind issues by changing the color or texture of the UI for all players. Other changes are hooked to our Colorblind option (as stated before).

We are continually trying to improve the game for everyone and as always, continue to appreciate all of the great feedback and support for these sorts of additions.