Are colour blind gamers left out?

Video and written feature
BBC News, April 2011
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Every so often, it’s good to be able to put an issue that affects you personally into the news agenda.

This piece about colour blind gamers struggling to play top titles grew from my own frustrations and, luck would have it, my editor’s too.

Working closely with the UK’s only colour blind awareness group, I used the latest online tools to simulate how certain games look to a colour blind person.

An accompanying written feature looked at the problem in-depth, and even spawned a new website, set up by a reader, tracking the accessibility of games for colour blind players.