Chrome will help you adapt sites for people with visual impairments

Google has begun testing a new Chrome tool that will allow developers to simulate visual impairment, to find out how people with color blindness or tritanopia (the inability to distinguish between shades of blue and yellow).

New accessibility feature in @ChromeDevTools: simulate vision deficiencies, including blurred vision & various types of color blindness. 🔥

Find out how people with vision deficiencies experience your web app, and resolve contrast issues you didn’t even know you had! pic.twitter.com/QKLQmEhhMM

- Mathias Bynens (@mathias) March 10, 2020

You can use this function through a special section in the developer tools. It is called visual impairment emulation. In it, using the drop-down menu, you can select various violations and see how difficult it will be to read the site for people with different color perception deviations.

This tool is available in Chrome 82, which is currently in early beta. Earlier similar funds started

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