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We regularly give interviews and provide advice to newspapers, magazines, radio stations and television companies. We are also able to direct journalists/producers etc to many of our colour blind volunteers willing to describe in detail what it is like to be colour blind in everyday situations. Until you next catch us commenting in the media we’d love you watch some of our videos and read some of the following articles.

Media appearances

Our most high profile appearance to date was in May 2019 when BBC Breakfast dedicated an 8 minute slot to colour blindness.

KAW BBC BreakfastWe occasionally take part in features on regional TV news programmes and give short live interviews on Sky Sports. We regularly give live radio interviews across the UK, especially around Colour Blind Awareness Day.

In March 2021 Nicky Campbell discussed colour blindness and the implications for the upcoming colour blind kit clash game between Wales and Ireland as part of his BBC 5Live Breakfast Show. The resulting call-ins and comments from listeners to the programme was so successful that Nicky decided to dedicate most of his morning breakfast show and his following one hour programme ‘Your Call’ specifically to colour blindness!

We also give interviews and take part in Podcasts – for example The Price of Football, Blokeology and Early Years TV.

We are always working to raise awareness of colour blindness in the media but we are a small team and it is a constant struggle to keep this page updated, so for the latest information please follow us on social media.

We are currently working on a project which we hope will be televised in April 2022.

Press articles and press releases

Below are a selection of press releases and media articles on a range of subjects. This section is unlikely to be up to date so we also recommend if you are searching for information on a specific topic please run a Google search on the topic.

19 July 2021

PRESS RELEASE – Colour Blind Awareness and Para Football join forces for more inclusive Para Football!

Colour Blind Awareness and Para Football Working Together Press Release 190721

28 July 2016

Read about how we took on the BBC and won!

BBC Trust finds in favour of colour blind viewers

The Guardian 28 July 2016 BBC told do to more for colour blind viewers

BUSINESS

SCHOOLS AND EDUCATION

Our #1ineveryclassroom campaign in 2015 was a great success, gaining coverage on TV and national radio stations – read more here and see the videos and TV coverage via our YouTube Playlist by clicking here

Some of the articles we have written for the educational press are listed below and will be updated.

SPORT

This section is in the process of being updated. In the meantime please run a Google search for ‘colour blindness in football’ and ‘colour blindness Six Nations’.

We’re having some success in colour blind friendly football kits! See more in our Sport section and read the following articles from UEFA’s Inside UEFA magazine Colour blind awareness at the Europa League Final 2017and a report on our presentation to FESI, umbrella body for the European Sporting Goods Industry

plus this EURO21016 article from BT Sport

Here’s the real reason Wales and Portugal wore their away kits – and it’s a very good one!

GENERAL INTEREST

Seeing Red by Oliver Morrison in 291 Magazine (New York) – October 2014

A fantastic article for colour blind people which investigates whether special glasses with coloured lenses might help with colour discrimination. To read the article follow this link to 291 Magazine.Link to features on the BBC News website on colour blindness and computer games
Are Colour Blind Gamers Left Out? and
Call of Duty, Killzone and Mario through Colour Blind Eyes

and a similar article on the Humans Invent website, Game Therapy: Helping the Disabled to Play, which discusses the problems experienced by people with various disabilities, including colour blindness, which arise in computer gaming.

Also on the BBC website follow this link to How the Colour Blind See Art with Different Eyes