Inspiration: We were inspired by the struggles that colorblind people face in their day-to-day life that might be overlooked. We wanted to shed light on a disability that most people disregard.
What it does: Je Vois is a web app that introduces you to its motivation, and then showing you around with its intuitive navigation and extremely readable graphics & text. Then, it shows you how a red-weak colorblind person would see this site. The site then directs the user to a Python mini-game, which is a simple task: picking correctly between a red and green apple. This portion is intentionally trivial, because the consecutive part is the same game, but this time with a colorblind filter on. With this filter on, the red and green apple shown don’t look like red and green anymore, making the game seem almost unfair, showcasing a small glimpse of what it’s like to be colorblind.
How we built it: We built a website (coded in vanilla HTML/CSS) dedicated to colorblindness, which includes a game that can help the average full-sighted person get a grasp of what it’s like to operate without complete color vision. Our game was built in Python and Brython.
As relative beginners to computer science, there were a lot of things we had to search up, and there were often things we couldn’t implement due to the higher skill bar. There was a lot of debugging, and sometimes there were even paywalls.
We were able to create a user friendly and accessible to every audience website, design cute and fitting graphics, get the colorblind filter to work, and a run of our Python game to work.
However, we learned a lot about using VScode
What's next for Je Vois- a guide to color blindness: Learning to embed our games directly on the site and expand outreach, also an AI component
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