One child in every classroom of
twenty-five is probably color blind.

8% of boys (1 out of 12) and 1% of girls are color blind.

That means that every class of twenty-five students most likely has at least one color blind pupil.

Red/green color blindness (by far the most common kind) is a range of impairments but generally speaking, greens, reds and oranges look “yellow”;  cyans and magentas look “gray.”  For others, primary colors are discernable, but pastel colors cause difficulties.

Children used to learn from black type on white paper with an occasional color picture from a book.  Today, as you know, computers are integrated into all kinds of class work.  Color is used on computers to help layer and explain information.  There are guidelines for choosing safe colors, but they are rarely followed, especially on the world wide web where more and more information and study materials are found.

Mouse over the images at left to see what common color data can look like to some red/green color blind students.

eyePilot is a simple, unobtrusive and low cost set of software tools that can help the color blind student keep up with his or her peers and avoid misunderstandings and discouragement.

eyePilot is available for both Windows and Mac.

Click HERE to see an animated Flash demo of the eyePilot tools.

Click HERE to download a free 30-day trial of eyePilot (but please view the brief Flash demo first).