Did you know that: 7-10% of men are red-green colour “blind”
Here is a nice tool to check your development and applications for the most common types colour blindness:
color oracle:
http://colororacle.cartography.ch [6]
Once installed (requires Java), with a simple right click, you can view your entire desktop or application (rich or thin) rendered as the folks w/ colour “blindness” would see it:
(thx Hadley [8] for the info)
Links:
[1] http://pulse.veltsos.com/category/it/software/development
[2] http://pulse.veltsos.com/category/it/internet
[3] http://pulse.veltsos.com/category/it/standards
[4] http://pulse.veltsos.com/category/it/visualization
[5] http://pulse.veltsos.com/category/it/web
[6] http://colororacle.cartography.ch
[7] http://linux.philosweb.com/drupal/system/files/image_2_122.png
[8] http://had.co.nz/