2 September 2005

A researcher is working on software that will make it far easier for people with different forms of colour blindness to use computers.

FarbenTech adjusts the colours displayed on the screen according to the type of colour blindness that each individual suffers from, SAP Info reports.

It was developed by Luke Jefferson, a PhD student with the School of Computing Sciences at the University of East Anglia.

Mr Jefferson is working on technologies that help colour vision deficiency (CVD) sufferers through retaining colour information by mapping colours according the form and acuteness of the individual user's condition.

He is also currently working on developing accessibility tools to help designers select colour combinations that are easy for CVD-afflicted people to use.

With approximately one out of every 12 people suffering with some type of CVD, FarbenTech and the other products of Mr Jefferson's research could help bring computer technologies to a whole section of the world's population that had previously been unable to harness their benefits.

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