Color Choice

My favorite color is blue. You would think so with the all the blue on this blog, but because I like blue is not the whole story. I have a medium dark color as a background with light writing because there are eye conditions for which that arrangement is more comfortable.

For instance for a person with ocular albinism a white background from a computer screen may give off too much light or glare making the eyes tire more quickly and sometimes even washing out the print. Persons with aniridia, Stargardt's syndrome, macular degeneration and cataracts may have the same problem.That is why I advise teachers who have students with these conditions to consider these problems when creating PowerPoint presentations, Smart Board activities, directed browsing activities, over head projections and the like.

I also chose blue because with most colorblindness, blue is most often the color that can be detected. Total colorblindness is very rare. Colorblindness may also accompany some other conditions such as those above and retinitis pigmentosa.