ProductUpdated on 6 February 2024

Freely and globally available software supporting users who are colour blind

Masahiko Shimoda

Principal Researcher at Ryobi Systems Co., Ltd.

Japan

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Ryobi Systems Co., Ltd., a large national company based in Japan, has created Visolve, an assistive software for people with colour blindness. It allows users to focus on certain areas of a screen and to apply colour filters such as ‘red/green’ or ‘blue/yellow’, thus ensuring better colour recognition. Visolve is freely available globally. Between 2005 and 2023 the software has been downloaded 72,000 times. As a second service, Ryobi offers paid services to companies supporting them to create colour blind-friendly products.

Read more on: https://zeroproject.org/view/project/b43af2f1-3778-41f9-b97b-754759e9f1d4

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