Solutions can be simple!
On the whole solutions for accommodating people with colour blindness are simple, common sense and inexpensive.
We work with sporting organisations of all sizes. We understand that addressing colour blindness challenges across your organisation might initially seem to be daunting if this is a new topic to your club or organisation, but we can work with you, pointing you to existing resources to allow you to decide exactly what’s needed and how change can be delivered at a pace that suits you.
Services we offer
The services we offer are wide-ranging and can be tailored to suit your needs. Our most popular services are
- Creation of guidance documents for governing bodies, including factsheets for specific topics/roles
- Stadium audits – to benchmark existing facilities and recommend cost-effective solutions
- Creating and delivering training sessions on a wide range of topics for governing bodies, manufacturers, designers, broadcasters, clubs, coaches, venue operators etc.
- Player screening and support.
Our clients include
- Formal guidance – The Council of Europe Pro S4+ Committee, The Football Association, UEFA, World Rugby, The Premier League and others, with guidance for other sports currently in the pipeline.
- Training – National Associations, clubs, coaching bodies and management, to provide training to support staff across different roles e.g. FIFA, The Football Association of Wales, The Professional Footballers’ Association, Aston Villa FC, Tottenham Hotspur Foundation and many others.
- Advice on facilities/stadium operations – Governing bodies, venue operators e.g. Wembley stadium, clubs, designers and architects to develop effective wayfinding strategies and accessible digital information and to advise on specific topics such as design of accreditation passes, accessible ticketing platform design, effective merchandising etc.
- Player screening and support – National associations and clubs, including elite coach training – including for FA Wales and pre-season 22/23 player screening and coach training sessions at Swansea City FC
We also:
- Raise awareness amongst external stakeholders e.g. broadcasters such as Sky Sports, and equipment suppliers including Macron and Molten
- Work with third parties across to provide effective solutions e.g. manufacturers associations.
As a result
We help to create
- Fully accessible stadia, websites, ticketing and corporate information
- Fully inclusive participation for players and spectators
- Opportunities to exploit the business case (sponsors/broadcasting rights/ticket sales/merchandise).
Ongoing Commitment
It’s important to review regularly the measures and guidelines you put in place to assist colour blind people and to ensure they are implemented in all areas as part of any overall upgrades e.g. to wayfinding information, stewards’ training packs and so on.
Contact us
If you would like our help we would love to hear from you. Please contact our CEO Kathryn Albany-Ward via [email protected]
A word of caution
Please note that unfortunately, due to the amount of money sport attracts and the high profile our work has gained recently in the media, some less scrupulous organisations are attempting to sell potential solutions to clubs and other organisations which are not satisfactory and do not resolve issues for colour blind people. Some even link to our website from their own, implying we support their products when we do not.
We pride ourselves on the fact that we will only provide independent advice and do not have financial links to any products or companies offering potential solutions. Therefore, if you ask for our advice, you can be confident that if we suggest potential solutions we will not gain financially from these.
We specifically do not endorse any tools such as website overlays from any organisation which can allow users to change the colour scheme of a website e.g. for a club website, because changing the colour scheme cannot be guaranteed to resolve problems for colour blind people. Website accessibility overlays have also been widely discredited by other accessibility specialists – read more.
Case study
One example of positive change we were able to influence was when we approached Sunset and Vine, the production company responsible for Cricket on 5, to let them know their wagon wheel graphics were inaccessible for many colour blind people.
The positive attitude of the production team resulted in subtle changes (such as increasing contrast between foreground and background colours) which allowed colour blind viewers to understand the information more easily, with no adverse effect for other viewers.
We feel it is very important that all our viewers get the ultimate enjoyment from our programme so we will do what we can to ensure that we make the necessary changes if possible.
Dylan Jane, Executive Producer, Cricket on Five, Sunset+Vine Productions
Since then we have been able to influence change in many areas of sport. See our dedicated Consulting website (top of page) for many more examples of Sport Case Studies. If you would like to know more about how we can help your organisation please contact us at [email protected] and see a brief summary of our involvement in different areas of sport Colour Blind Awareness in Sport 2022
Find out more about the diagnosis of colour blindness
Find out more about the causes of colour blindness
Find out more about the different types of colour blindness
