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EnChroma and UNC’s Department of Health Sciences Team to Help Color Blind Students Address Challenges to Learning on Campus

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Tuesday, April 25, 2023
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In addition, faculty and staff will receive guidance on adapting learning materials to accommodate those who are color blind.

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  • In addition, faculty and staff will receive guidance on adapting learning materials to accommodate those who are color blind.
  • Within the Department of Health Sciences’ student population of approximately 400, the statistics would indicate about 17 students are color blind.
  • While people with normal color vision see over one million shades of color, the color blind only see an estimated 10% of hues and shades.
  • In the EnChroma study, nearly 1,000 color blind people, including the parents of color blind children, shared their opinions about how Color Vision Deficiency affected their educational experiences.

Inspired by Tragedy, Military Vet Donates Glasses for Color Blindness to Rio Rancho Schoolchildren Who Are Color Vision Deficient

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Monday, April 24, 2023
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RIO RANCHO, N.M. & BERKELEY, Calif., April 24, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- – Generous Donation Helps Color Blind Students Overcome Learning Challenges in School –

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  • A generous local military veteran has purchased EnChroma glasses for 10 color blind students in the Rio Rancho Public School District to help them overcome the obstacles color blindness poses to learning.
  • – makers of glasses for color blindness – and Rio Rancho Public Schools , today announced that a generous local military veteran has purchased EnChroma glasses for color blind students to overcome the obstacles color blindness poses to learning.
  • The EnChroma glasses will help the color blind students better understand color-coded information on tests, projects, or assignments for which correctly interpreting color plays a role.
  • With nearly 17,000 students in the district, over 700 Rio Rancho students are likely color blind.

Colorblind Mississippi State University Students Gain Access to Specially Engineered EnChroma Glasses

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Thursday, April 20, 2023
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STARKVILLE, Miss. and BERKELEY, Calif., April 20, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Distinguishing red and green traffic lights. Determining the correct orientation of a drone from color cues and markings. Discerning color-coded topography lines on maps. These are just some ways colorblindness affects more than 350 million individuals globally, including an estimated 1,200 of the nearly 28,000 Mississippi State University students, faculty and staff who are Color Vision Deficient (CVD) across every discipline.

Key Points: 
  • Mississippi State faculty members in the plant and soil sciences and geosciences departments have partnered with EnChroma, makers of specially engineered glasses that can alleviate obstacles to improve learning and support for colorblind students.
  • EnChroma will provide the glasses—for indoor and outdoor use—for all colorblind MSU students and staff to borrow from the Department of Geosciences.
  • Mississippi State faculty members in the plant and soil sciences and geosciences departments have partnered with EnChroma , makers of specially engineered glasses that can alleviate CVD obstacles, to improve learning and support for colorblind students.
  • Together they gathered support to make EnChroma glasses for colorblindness available for loan to CVD students and staff on campus.

The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art Teams with EnChroma to Enhance Experience for Color Blind Visitors

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Monday, March 6, 2023
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AMHERST, Mass. and BERKELEY, Calif., March 6, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- EnChroma® glasses to enable guests with color vision deficiencies to see the vibrant, colorful collages of Eric Carle

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  • The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art is the first art museum in Massachusetts to offer eyewear by EnChroma to visitors with color vision deficiencies, or "color blindness."
  • and BERKELEY, Calif., March 6, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- EnChroma® glasses to enable guests with color vision deficiencies to see the vibrant, colorful collages of Eric Carle
    The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art is the first art museum in Massachusetts to offer eyewear by EnChroma to visitors with color vision deficiencies, or "color blindness."
  • Beginning March 1, guests with color vision deficiencies can borrow special EnChroma glasses from The Carle to experience the Museum's picture book art in clear, vibrant color for the first time.
  • "And now, with the help of The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, their color blind visitors will be able to fully enjoy his and other artist's picture book illustrations in vivid color."

Colour Blind Guests to the Van Gogh Museum to Experience Art in Colour with EnChroma Glasses

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Tuesday, February 14, 2023
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Today EnChroma announced that colour blind visitors to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam will be able to enjoy the colourful masterpieces of Vincent van Gogh in fuller colour.

Key Points: 
  • Today EnChroma announced that colour blind visitors to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam will be able to enjoy the colourful masterpieces of Vincent van Gogh in fuller colour.
  • As part of the Van Gogh Museum’s mission to promote accessibility, EnChroma glasses for red-green colour blindness will be available for guests who suffer from Colour Vision Deficiency (CVD, or “colour blindness”) to borrow while touring the museum.
  • Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation).
  • The Van Gogh Museum is the first museum in Amsterdam, and second in The Netherlands, to support colour blind guests via the EnChroma Colour Accessibility Program ™.

Colour Blind Guests to the Van Gogh Museum to Experience Art in Colour with EnChroma Glasses

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Tuesday, February 14, 2023
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AMSTERDAM & BERKELEY, Calif., Feb. 14, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Amsterdam, The Netherlands & Berkeley, California – February 14, 2023 – Today EnChroma announced that colour-blind visitors to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam will be able to enjoy the colourful masterpieces of Vincent van Gogh in fuller colour. As part of the Van Gogh Museum's mission to promote accessibility, EnChroma glasses for red-green colour blindness will be available for guests who suffer from Colour Vision Deficiency (CVD, or "colour blindness") to borrow while touring the museum.

Key Points: 
  • Colour blind visitors to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam will be able to enjoy the colourful masterpieces of Vincent van Gogh in fuller colour.
  • As part of the Van Gogh Museum's mission to promote accessibility, EnChroma glasses for red-green colour blindness will be available for colour blind guests to borrow while touring the museum.
  • As part of the Van Gogh Museum's mission to promote accessibility, EnChroma glasses for red-green colour blindness will be available for guests who suffer from Colour Vision Deficiency (CVD, or "colour blindness") to borrow while touring the museum.
  • The Van Gogh Museum is the first museum in Amsterdam, and second in The Netherlands, to support colour-blind guests via the EnChroma Colour Accessibility Program ™.

Experience Prescott Teams with EnChroma to Loan Color Blind Glasses to Visitors at Seven Popular Destinations

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Friday, December 23, 2022
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City Boasts Second Most 'Color Blind Accessible' Cultural Venues in the World After Seattle

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  • Prescott, Arizona--(Newsfile Corp. - December 23, 2022) - Experience Prescott , the City of Prescott Tourism Office and EnChroma - makers of glasses for color blindness - today announced a partnership to make the city's top popular tourist destinations accessible to millions of people who are color blind.
  • The city has purchased 52 pairs of EnChroma glasses and distributed them to seven popular tourist locations throughout the city for color blind guests and the public to borrow.
  • We are sure that the EnChroma glasses will help create indelible memories for color blind people and their loved ones."
  • Color blind guests and citizens of Prescott can borrow EnChroma glasses at the following locations:

The Centre Pompidou and EnChroma Improve Arts Experience for Colour Blind Visitors

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Wednesday, December 14, 2022
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The Centre Pompidou today announced that colour blind visitors are now able to borrow EnChroma glasses for colour blindness during visits to the iconic museum.

Key Points: 
  • The Centre Pompidou today announced that colour blind visitors are now able to borrow EnChroma glasses for colour blindness during visits to the iconic museum.
  • With over three million annual visitors, an estimated 128,000 guests to the Centre Pompidou are colour blind.
  • While people with normal colour vision see over one million shades and hues of colour, colour blind people see only an estimated 10% of them.
  • The Centre Pompidou is the first museum in France to support the needs of colour blind guests via the EnChroma Colour Accessibility Program .

EnChroma Supports Colourblind Students at RWTH Aachen University

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Tuesday, November 22, 2022
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VORSCHUB at RWTH Aachen University today announced that colourblind students and staff will now be able to borrow EnChroma colourblind glasses on campus to help them overcome the obstacles to learning and everyday life that colour vision deficiency (CVD) poses.

Key Points: 
  • VORSCHUB at RWTH Aachen University today announced that colourblind students and staff will now be able to borrow EnChroma colourblind glasses on campus to help them overcome the obstacles to learning and everyday life that colour vision deficiency (CVD) poses.
  • With over 47,000 students, and nearly 10,000 faculty and staff, an estimated 2,400 people at RWTH Aachen University are color blind.
  • VORSCHUB at RWTH Aachen University joins the University of Hamburg as the first European universities to align with numerous prestigious universities in the US in supporting the needs of colour blind students via the EnChroma Colour Accessibility Programme .
  • This Program is already helping colour blind students at Boston University, North Carolina State University, Penn State University, Alfred University and others.

Travel Yukon and Enchroma Help People With Colourblindness See the Northern Lights

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Wednesday, September 21, 2022
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In order to demonstrate the power of this new accessibility, Travel Yukon took Russell on a once-in-a-lifetime trip to experience the northern lights in their truest colourful form.

Key Points: 
  • In order to demonstrate the power of this new accessibility, Travel Yukon took Russell on a once-in-a-lifetime trip to experience the northern lights in their truest colourful form.
  • "With dynamic lights and fantastic hues of greens, purples and reds, the northern lights are one of Yukon's most beautiful natural phenomena,'' said Robin Anderson, Global Marketing Manager at Travel Yukon.
  • By coming together, EnChroma and Travel Yukon were able to provide Russell with a week of colourful moments that will last a lifetime.
  • "We're so excited to partner with Travel Yukon to give Russell and future visitors the chance to see the northern lights in all their glory."