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Originally Posted by chaley
Request: please don't post in green letters. I have no end of trouble even seeing them, much less reading them
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Too many people do not realize that a significant part of the population is color blind to some degree or another. All my working life I fought with companies who thought it would be a bright idea to color code files, etc., until I convinced them it would hamstring as many as 10% of their employees. I was unable to get into apprenticeship programs for electrician and machinist/metal fabricator/welder because of my color blindness (red/blue/green). The company IO worked for did eventually relax the color blindness standards to apply only to the electrical trades but, by that time, I was too old too qualify (the age restriction was eventually shot down as being descriminatory but, again, by then I was too close to retirement to afford the pay cut if I entered the apprenticeship program). Sadly and oddly, even though colorblindness is one of the largest physical handicaps in terms of population percentage, it is not covered by the American Disabilities Act.