How To Create Accessible Graphs For Colorblind People

Including a Python color blindness simulator and appropriate color schemes

Caroline Arnold
Towards Data Science
7 min readFeb 5, 2024

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Color blindness, or more precisely color vision deficiency, affects up to 8% of men and 0.5% of women. The most common condition is red-green color blindness, a congenital disorder in which people lack the receptors for either red or green colors in…

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