[OSM-talk] Survey for people with color vision deficiencies about the street classes in OSM's Mapnik style

[Ben Laenen]

Is there a way to see the proposed colour changes for someone who isn't colour 
blind and can't take the test?

Ben


On Sunday 07 October 2012 15:54:02 johannes.kroeger at hcu-hamburg.de wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I am a geomatics student currently working on my bachelor thesis (in
> Germany, not sure how that compares to a bachelor elsewhere). It's about
> map design for people with color vision deficiency (color vision
> impairment, colorblindness, etc). After wanting to analyse the whole
> osm.org Mapnik map style at first, I quickly realised I had to reduce the
> scope and thus "only" worked on the main street classes. I carefully
> adjusted their colors to keep the main hue (blue, green, red etc) but to
> make them identifiable and distinguishable for CVD affected people.
> 
> Now I am testing those (and the original colors in comparison) with an
> online survey. To get a good amount of data I need many participants of
> course, so if you are affected by color vision related problems, please
> participate. Share the link!
> 
> The test takes about 20 minutes, I have seen numbers from 12 to 40 minutes.
> I assume it takes longer the more severe the effect is. You can pause
> anytime and you can skip questions even though that would not be so great
> for me. It presents a _lot_ of map images with simple tasks for
> identification of the streets inside. You can take the survey in English
> or German.
> 
> The survey:
> http://geomatik.enjoys.it/limesurvey/index.php?sid=94319&lang=en&osm
> 
> I will report the findings in the end. If the test validates my new colors
> as better, then I will try to get them into the main style. At least that
> was my main goal. Let's first see what the results are.
> 
> Thanks for your attention and thanks for helping out, Hannes
> 
> PS: If you want to stalk me, these are my rather neglected OSM profiles
> (partly in german I think), I've been around since 2008. Ban potlatch!!!!1
> ;) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:HannesHH
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/HannesHH
> 
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