Reflection of class on Jan. 26^th

  When I read the section of “Designing for Color Vision Deficiency” in this chapter 7, I was greatly moved by the author about his humane consideration although it’s just a little part of design consideration that may be ignored imperceptibly by many normal people.

  But I read it seriously for twice because I’m just a man with red-green color blindness that I can’t distinguish red and green clearly if they are mixed together in spot forms like images in the manual of color blindness test.

  As the author said, “there is a misconception that color blind individuals see in black and white”. I can distinguish red and green if they are exiting separately or there is an obvious distance between them like traffic lights. But many people without relevant biological knowledge always regard me as a person who can just perceive white and black if I tell them I’m red-green color blind. And then some of them will deliberately let me distinguish red and green and other colors. Well, they won’t be my friends forever.

  In my childhood I was dreaming to be a doctor and kept moving on this till “GaoKao”. I applied for six medical universities but received no acceptance because I was a color blindness. That was the first time I felt very sad about my physiological deficiency because I couldn’t be a doctor anymore.

  Fortunately, just because of this, I chose Educational Technology as my major at last and then I could have the chance to come here for one year learning with you and Dr. Templar. It must be a great experience in my life and maybe it’s a blessing in disguise.