If you had to describe the color blue to a blind person how would you do it?
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I am presuming that I would be describing the color to a person blind from birth, who has no visual point of reference. \n\nI would describe different shades of any color with emotive adjectives and associations to touch or sound.\n\nFor example, I might describe the color powder blue as: soft and weightless. It makes you feel like you are as light as a balloon, and could float away with the gentlest of breezes.\n\nI might describe midnight blue as:  dense, muddled and rather mysterious. It feels like the air on a humid morning; heavy with moisture, with occasional tinges of crispness barely perceivable. And, the same with other colors.
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Blue: the sky\nRed: my car\nYellow: the light that I hurry through before it turns red.\nGreen: grass\nBlack: my old car\nPink: Panther
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How can you prove the color Blue is Blue? what if it is really yellow, and all along we have been calling it Blue?\n\nSome one must have tought me that Blue is Blue, and I never stoped calling it blue. It's blue because no one every proved other wise. It's what I was raised with, calling it Yellow would sound funny to me and others, no one would understand me.\n\nI think we are born, we learn every thing we can, and we then put the peices in as we can understand them. \nI dont know if I am real or not, but I choose to beleive I am, for what reason is beyong me, perhaps I was raised to think I am real, and so I am. I cant prove it either way, Im just comfortable thinking that I am.
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W3C is a good place to start for HTML questions. The link below is their page about ALT. It tells people who can't see the picture what it is. So, "Floor plan of my house" or "floor plan of Buckingham palace" would do it. Someone who is REALLY interested will turn on his graphics, or ask a sighted person to describe it to him, or otherwise cope.\n\nALT should describe the graphic, not be the text equivalent. There is a difference. To take an extreme example, someone born blind who surfs with a browser that reads aloud to him is never going to know what a rainbow looks like. \n\nALT="Rainbow over pasture" \n\nwill tell him the picture is one of those rainbow things sighted people have been telling about all his life. You aren't going to be able to describe it to him.
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They are color blind.  Part of the job description.
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eyes: bluish-green\n\nHair: blonde
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It's really blue. Because you see it as blue.
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I think white+creme or sky blue. purple light yellow
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<*text color="blue"*> type text here <*/text*>\n\nwithout the *s.
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I dont think you can. =^P It would be wierd if I was seeing blue and somebody else was seeing (my version of) red and saying it was blue... Mabye everybody has different color views. Never know.
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My big blue eyes (their almost like a dark sapphire color)...sometimes, depending on my mood, the white part will have a bluish tint to it as well.
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It is blue when the blood does not have oxygen in it.  Once blood is drawn though, it hits the oxygen and turns red.
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The word 'colorblind' really means 'abnormal color vision' ... in other words the vast majority of humans fall into a certain range of color vision, and 'colorblind' people fall outside that range.\n\nSo we all can't be 'colorblind' by definition of the word 'colorblind'.\n\nAnd words like 'blue' and 'orange' are just names we give to certain experiences.  There is no way to tell if two humans actually have a different personal experience when they look at the sky ... both will point at the sky and say 'blue' ... simply by definition of the word 'blue' as "the same color as the sky."\n\nAll we can tell is that most of us will point to a sky, and the sea, and to Italy's home uniform and say they are all the same color ... a color that we were taught in childhood is named 'blue.'\n\nIn other words, all we can tell is that most of us have the same color *categories*, regardless of whether we call it 'blue' or 'azul' or 'bleen.'
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Doya havea specific color in mind?
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blue... just look at the sky w/c is so vast and also to the bodies of water. another color... hmmm.... is black, most of our day is night, right?
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If I were describing colors to someone who can't see them, then I would use things they are super sensative with, such as the other hightened senses like touch, smell and taste.  Green to me would be a combination of blue or something cool with yellow - something warm.  Green then to me would be the cool breeze on your face in the warm sun.  Then add the other senses such as smell. Elaborate on the "Grass, spring" answer someone else gave by adding the description of freshly mowed grass or cut pine. Then let them taste a granny smith apple and feel the leaves of a fern or Blue Fir tree.
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um this bob dillon just mentioned that color. \ni'm listing to it on my (blue) cd player\nmore blue can be found\njust look all around\npoetry aint that bad.\nit really helps when your sad\n(really blue)