September is Color Blindness Awareness Month. The library has two pairs of of EnChroma glasses to giveaway! Enter to win a pair at the library! Drawing will take place October 1. Indoor glasses work for both Deutan and Protan type color blindness.
Did you know that one in 10 men (8%) and one in 200 women (.5%) are color blind? That is 13 million people in the U.S., and 350 million people worldwide! People with red-green Color Vision Deficiency (CVD) only see about 10% of the one million hues and shades visible to those with regular color vision. That’s why at work, school, in daily life, or when exploring nature or viewing artwork, it’s hard for them to see red or green or any colors containing them.
To the red-green color blind, red looks brown, pink seems gray, green appears tan, yellow, or gray and purple looks blue. To them, colors seem dull, “washed out” and difficult to tell apart.
Visit the EnChroma website to access color blindness tests.
EnChroma glasses help people with red-green color blindness experience more vibrant, enhanced color. The glasses are not a cure for color blindness. They work for eight of 10 people with deuteranomaly or protanomaly type red-green color blindness and results and reaction times vary.