A Call for Considering Color Vision Deficiency When Creating Graphics for Psychology Reports

What is it about?

Red-green color vision deficiency ("color blindness") is fairly common, yet rarely considered when creating color graphics for scientific reports. I illustrate this mainly by having a panel of scholars with color vision deficiency analyze color graphics in respected psychological science journals. I also show that problematic graphics can typically be made more accommodating by simple adjustments.

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Why is it important?

Color graphics in scientific journals rarely accommodate viewers with color vision deficiency, despite the fact that it is generally easy to do so. I argue that professional societies, scientific style manuals, journals, and authors should do a better job of making color graphics accessible to this sizable minority of readers.