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Achromatopsia Books

Dalton International Color Vision Society

Eye Disorders - Color Blindness - site listings

Ishihara Test - Classic diagnostic for the condition.

Ishihara color blindness test - Page sells books, allows PayPal.

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: Treatment - Paragraph may trigger pop-ups. Links to test plate or poster sales, and information on the X-Chrom lens.

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.'

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'

Colour Vision Testing - Cambridge Colour Test - Advanced test. Requires special hardware.

Colorblindness and . . .Types - Explains mechanics and physiology, and includes color wheels to simulate what the disabled see.

Information & Products - Addresses and links for makers and sellers of products to accomodate color vision problems.

Pseudoisochromatic Plates Comparison Chart - Chart compares color vision tests. Links to related information.

Poor color vision - Mayo Clinic staff article includes overview, causes, when to seek medical advice, screening and diagnosis, treatment, and coping skills.

Umist Eye System - Extensive colour vision test from the UK.

Color Vision Confusion - Focuses on 'universal usability' in web page design. Many references (links).

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.

More Prevalent Among Males - Short article tells how disease evolved.

Disability Advice Centre fact sheet - colour blindness - 4-page Royal Mail (UK) pdf about the disability. Includes useful URLs.

FDA talk paper - U.S. Department position on 'colormax' lenses to ameliorate red-green color deficiency.

Ishihara 14 page Color Blindness Book - A top-seller at Kappa Medical products.

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.

Medical College develops genetic test for colorblindness - Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Journal Sentinel story of test licensed to ColorMax. 'A major breakthrough.' (November 16, 2000)

Gene Research on Cure for Colorblindness - Animal trials insert normal genes into the retina using a retrovirus, to give color vision. (April 14, 2004)

HealthLink MCW - An article about the severity of this ailment.

ColorMax Lenses - FDA talk paper intended to help agency people answer questions on product. (December 21, 1999)

Information about Color Vision - About C. V. Deficiency: J. Lauri's page about condition. includes bibliography.

Normal and Defective Colour Vision - Book for sale: 456pp, 4 color plates. Eds Mollon, Pokorny, and Knoblauch, (62.5 pounds)

Color blindness - Information from Cataract & Laser Institute. Signs & Symptoms, Detection & Diagnosis, Treatment.

Colour Vision Testing - Leading UK colour vision consultant offers tests for education, careers, employment and safety-related professions.

What's Color Blindness? - KidsHealth ('For Kids') article written and peer-reviewed by Physicians.

The X-Chrom lens: a case study - Paragraph from Australian Optometrists Association describing patient fitted with a color contact.

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)

Color Vision Recorder - Software for eye care pro's. Tests for condition and tracks results of the Farnsworth or Lanthony's desaturated D15 tests.

Drugs affecting color vision - Chart lists drugs affecting color vision. Ibuprofen (Advil) makes it worse.

Explanation, with online tests - Includes chart, tables, and pictures.

CVRL Color & Vision database - an annotated library of downloads for color and vision research. Color Vision Research Laboratory information is primarily scientific and technical.

Colorblind - Short facts on condition. Links to self-diagnostic test.

Red-green color blindness in humans - Tutorial from sex-linked inheritance problem set provides college-level explaination. Includes graphics

Probers fear co-pilot in FedEx crash is colorblind - (AP) Officials are investigating color-deficient co-pilot after plane crash. (December 27, 2003)

Wikipedia - ('The Free Encyclopedia') article on subject. Includes a simple diagnostic test, rates of incidence, causes, types of deficiency, and other tests.

Medical Genetics - X-linked Recessive: Red-Green Color Blindness, Hemophilia A - Inheritance of the condition, and similar mechanism in hemophilia.

Vischeck - See the world as color blind people see it. Can also simulate the effects of distance or different monitor types.

Color Blindness - Account from afflicted individual. Many links.

List of genetic disorders - Wikipedia - Entry lists colorblindness as a point mutation in the X chromosome. Links to details.

Creamer Color Chart - Screening test for the early detection of red-green colorblindness in children.

Ask A Biologist - Color tests for eyes with or without the condition.

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.

Appearance: Colorblindness - How things look to someone who is colorblind. Overview of tests and genetics.

Color Vision - Presentation about normal vision. Includes spectra, eye anatomy and color response curves.