PSA: My nephew's traffic light worksheet at school was completely unreadable to him

He's in second grade. They had a 'stoplight' system for behavior, red for bad, yellow for warning, green for good. All the kids had to color it in. My nephew is red-green colorblind. He just sat there, confused. Teacher thought he was being difficult. I saw the worksheet when he brought it home. The circles were just outlines, no labels. He couldn't tell which was which. Found out from his mom that about 1 in 12 boys have some form of color vision deficiency. That's way more common than I thought. How many other basic things like this are we designing that just fail for them? What's a simple fix for something like a worksheet?

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betty_fisher513d ago

Honestly, this happens way more than people realize. My cousin's kid had the same issue with a map in class. Tbh the teacher started adding little symbols inside the circles, like a check for green and an X for red. It's such an easy fix that helps everyone. Ngl it should just be standard practice to not rely only on color.

miller.susan13d ago

Yeah, I'm colorblind too and I once colored a whole stoplight wrong. Felt pretty silly.