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Color Contrast Overlays
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Color Identification
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Color Vision Deficiency Information & Products
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High Visibility Floor Tape and Paint
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Job Restructuring
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Policy Modification
Color Contrast Overlays
The use of color contrast overlays may increase the legibility of a paper document, allowing the reader to more easily discern either printed images or words
Color Identification
Applications and devices for low-vision and color-blind individuals that can interpret and define colors of objects.
Vendors and Products
American Printing House for the Blind, Inc.
Color Vision Deficiency Information & Products
Color Vision Deficiency (CVD) is the inability to distinguish between some colors and shades. Most people with this condition can identify some colors. Few people are totally "color blind." Color filters, such as a special red contact lens worn on one eye or prescription glasses may be used to help some people with a color deficiency. In addition, talking products are available that will scan a color and announce a description of the color (originally designed for individuals who are blind).
Vendors and Products
American Printing House for the Blind, Inc.
Color Oracle
High Visibility Floor Tape and Paint
Color can provide important safety cues such as serving as an indicator of change in surface or level, a warning for potential hazards such as open doors or cabinets, and serve as a way to color-code files, documents and other paperwork. These high contrast/ high visibility products can be useful to help with a variety of tasks for someone with low vision.
Vendors and Products
- 2 in. x 54 ft. Adhesive Marking Tape
- 1-7/8 in. x 100 ft. x 0.005 in. Red Seam Guard Underlayment Tape Roll
- 15 oz. High Visibility Yellow 2X Distance Inverted Marking Spray Paint (6-Pack)
- 2 in. x 50 yds. Fluorescent Pink Gaffer Industrial Vinyl Cloth Tape
- 2 in. x 50 yds. Fluorescent Yellow Gaffer Industrial Vinyl Cloth Tape (3-Pack)
Job Restructuring
Job restructuring is a form of reasonable accommodation which enables many qualified individuals with disabilities to perform jobs effectively. Job restructuring as a reasonable accommodation may involve reallocating or redistributing the marginal functions of a job. However, an employer is not required to reallocate essential functions of a job as a reasonable accommodation. Essential functions, by definition, are those that a qualified individual must perform, with or without an accommodation.
An employer may exchange marginal functions of a job that cannot be performed by a person with a disability for marginal job functions performed by one or more other employees.
Although an employer is not required to reallocate essential job functions, it may be a reasonable accommodation to modify the essential functions of a job by changing when or how they are done.
Policy Modification
Common policy modification accommodations include modifications to leave, no-animal, dress code, and fragrance policies. For example, an attendance policy can be modified so that the absences related to seizures will not count against the employee.