Colour Choices and Colour-Blind Accessibility in Data Visualization

Colour brings data visualizations to life, not only for its aesthetic appeal, but for its ability to convey crucial information. This video discusses the fundamental types of colour schemes and introduces the topic of colour accessibility in data visualization so that your stories can be effectively told to all members of your potential audience, including those who are colour-blind.

Links from the video:

* 1 in 12 men and 1 in 200 women are colour-blind: https://www.colourblindawareness.org/colour-blindness/

* Colour-blindness and Data Visualization: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7LCT7Qe4Ws

* Colour-blind–friendly palettes by Paul Tol: https://personal.sron.nl/~pault/

* Create a custom colour scheme in Microsoft Excel: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/change-a-theme-and-make-it-the-default-in-word-or-excel-c846f997-968e-4daa-b2d4-42bd2afef904?ui=en-us&rs=en-us&ad=us

Simulators of colour-blind and monochromatic vision

* Web: Coblis: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/change-a-theme-and-make-it-the-default-in-word-or-excel-c846f997-968e-4daa-b2d4-42bd2afef904?ui=en-us&rs=en-us&ad=us

* Microsoft Windows: colour filter: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/use-color-filters-in-windows-43893e44-b8b3-2e27-1a29-b0c15ef0e5ce#WindowsVersion=Windows_10

* Smartphone apps for colour-blind vision: Chromatic Vision Simulator for Android (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=asada0.android.cvsimulator) or iOS (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chromatic-vision-simulator/id389310222)

* Monochrome vision on smartphone: https://ting.com/blog/going-grayscale-ios-android-smartphone/

* Accessible data visualization (including for completely blind people): https://www.highcharts.com/blog/tutorials/10-guidelines-for-dataviz-accessibility/