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Most charts don't have a ton of data. Choosing four accessible colors is not challenging. Most UIs are monochromatic.

I'm not sure I need data, most interfaces or designs you see already accommodate color blindness via simplicity. Those that do not can almost always do so by adjusting the palette subtly, with almost no perceptual difference for those who are not colorblind.

Obviously simulating colorblindness on a general graphics level is less effective, and I don't think anyone is suggesting we apply such filters universally.

The center of my argument is that it is easy with software, which has consumed the information world, to simply offer alternative viewing modes, of which colorblind modes are not very complicated.



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