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Color Blindness comes in many flavors. Some have protanopianote (blindness to red), deuteranopianote (blindness to green), tritanopianote (blindness to blue), anomalous trichromacy (all three types of cones are present but one cone’s light sensitivity is altered, resulting in a reduced color spectrum), or even monochromacy (complete color blindness).

Adding at least one – but ideally five – Color Blind Mode/s that alter the color palette would greatly enhance Miro’s accessibility.

Can you just add the color names to the basic template? 

Other things that would help with colorblindness:

  • Add ways OTHER THAN COLOR to distinguish between two items.
    • Add border pattern options: Dashed lines, dotted lines, thick and thin lines. More that 2-3 options, please. We need 6 or more. 
    • Background patterns for shapes: hashed lines, stripes, dots, etc. 
  • Label the colors in the color picker. But also label the shapes on the workspace, so colorblind teammates can hover over them and know what color they are (or something similar). 
  • Add more shape options. Like 6 types of post-its, but instead of difference to color, they have different little shapes or notches cut out at the corner. Different shapes are fine, but do you know how hard it is to fit text in a star or a circle?
  • Alternately, you could add a symbol to the corner of a post-it stack so all the post-its that come from the stack share that symbol.

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