{"id":11013,"date":"2024-02-22T13:50:48","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T13:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/?p=11013"},"modified":"2024-02-22T13:54:41","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T13:54:41","slug":"making-your-figures-more-accessible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/making-your-figures-more-accessible\/","title":{"rendered":"Making your figures more accessible"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

You might have created the most esthetic figures for your last presentation with a beautiful colour scheme, but have you considered how these might look to someone with colourblindness? Around 5% of the gerneral population suffer from some kind of color vision deficiency, so making your figures more accessible is actually quite important! There are a range of online tools that can help you create figures that look great to everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Colourblindness simulators are a useful tools to check how your figures would look to people with different types of colour vision deficiencies. There are many tools available online, I found that Pilestone (https:\/\/pilestone.co.uk\/pages\/color-blindness-simulator<\/a>) is easy to use. The website allows you to upload your own figure and view it with a range of simulated colour vision deficiencies. Below you can see an example of my figure simulated with deuteranopia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In case your figure does not pass the test, there are online tools available that can help you to create a colourblind friendly palette. I particularly like Coolors (https:\/\/coolors.co\/) as it provides a nice interface to customise your own colour palette.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You might have created the most esthetic figures for your last presentation with a beautiful colour scheme, but have you considered how these might look to someone with colourblindness? Around 5% of the gerneral population suffer from some kind of color vision deficiency, so making your figures more accessible is actually quite important! There are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[621,296,30,48],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[719],"class_list":["post-11013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-visualization","category-hints-and-tips","category-links","category-publication"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":719,"user_id":96,"is_guest":0,"slug":"fabian","display_name":"Fabian Spoendlin","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/fe8656437d6201bf7b19b9b2aa6e524d88dd85f3c7dd8f5b8fc091d7df337957?s=96&d=mm&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11013"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11020,"href":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11013\/revisions\/11020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11013"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=11013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}