Assistive technologies and color blindness: a survey of products aimed to the design of a game to aid in the learning of colors and their symbologies

Abstract

Color blindness is a deficiency of non-recognition of colors, where the person can not identify certain or all of the shades of a color, which entails to a significant dependence on their daily life. Since several information on a daily basis are color based when transmitting important aspects of daily living. Attempting to decrease the issues faced by this specific public since childhood, systems and / or devices have been developed. The present article aims to present a survey of assistive technologies developed for Color blinds, in order to gather data for the development of a game to assist colorblind children in the learning of colors and their symbologies, using the ColorADD code. In order to do so, a bibliographical and documentary research was carried out to identify assistive technologies that cover resources, services, techniques, devices and processes, aimed at the Color blinds of different ages available in the market.