Hi Kevin,
The talking colour detectors (Colorino and Cobolt)
http://shop.rnib.org.uk/home-and-leisure/labelling/colour-detectors.html
cannot recognise the colour of light.
I have used both of them. They can detect the colour of materials and objects and they can detect if a light is on or off but not the actual colour of light.
Regards
Diana Maniati
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From: Discussion list for disabled students and their support staff. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ian F.
Sent: 29 July 2015 10:20
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Subject: Re: Visual issue recognising coloured lights on equipment
This sounds like a nightmare - so much studio equipment now uses LEDs in arrays of greens to indicate normal levels and reds to indicate the levels are peaking or are overall too high, or even colour LCD displays etc that replicate the older hardware ... and most audio software pacakages tend to try to replicate the hardware too.
I.m not sure colour detection equipment is going to help in a practical studio-based setting. I guess with hardware, unless someone wants to get busy with a soldering iron replacing the LEDs for ones with different colours (!) the filtered lighting / filtered glasses idea just to establish some kind of contrast between the two colours must be worth trying and also ensure equipment has alternative methods of displaying data e.g. on an analog or digital level/db meter.
on computer I guess you'll have already tried screen masking / colour tinting software to see if that might help?
If it's Logic on his own computer it does appear there can be some hacking into the various gui colours so there might be something in here
- earlier version of logic but might still be worth exploring:-
http://www.logicprohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=97685
Not practical if he has to use it in the studio though, unless someone can device a small app or macro that changes the colours then sets them back to standard afterwards.
Ian Francis
On 28/07/2015 16:29, Kevin Brunton wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've received a a query that's completely new to me so I'm hoping that
> someone out there might be able to comment. I've copied the query
> exactly as it was explained to me:
>
> "The student has a red green deficiency which is effecting his ability
> to distinguish LEDs on studio equipment. He struggles to discern if
> equipment is on or off and if LED signals are going into the red. This
> also applies to Logic software where distorting signal paths are
> indicated with red. I don’t think these red alerts in Logic can be
> colour customised.
>
> This also effects him in the environment at large which is
> increasingly using red green or tonally similar alerts, eg, Oyster
> card tapping (when wearing headphones which cancel out the additional
> audio alert) and even if the locks use red, green switching (similar
> to those sometimes found on toilet doors)".
>
> If anyone has any ideas for tackling this issue then they would be
> gratefully received.
>
> Thanks
>
> Kevin Brunton
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