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USWDS-Site - Guidance: Readdress color blindness statistics #2764

Open mahoneycm opened 3 months ago

mahoneycm commented 3 months ago

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The NEI color blindness page referenced in our color guidance has been updated. The new page no longer provides statistics referenced in our guidance.

The two statistics in question are:

Approximately 0.5% of adult women and 8% of adult men have some kind of color insensitivity

The new guidance mentions the number of adult men with color blindness, but not adult women.

"About 1 in 12 men have color vision deficiency" ^1

Approximately 4.5% of the population has some kind of color insensitivity

The new guidance does not mention the percent of the general population with color insensitivity.

annepetersen commented 2 months ago

@JaymeCharles, could you do the research here to find out if these numbers are still accurate, and then if we can find a new .gov source to reference?