Millions of people face some form of color blindness, and many don’t even know it. People with color blindness have trouble telling the difference between certain colors like red, green, and blue. They often rely on accessibility options to help them see colors better.
Android has long offered a color correction mode as part of its accessibility settings. In Android 15, these modes now include intensity sliders to provide even more help for color-blind users. Under Settings > Accessibility > Color and Motion, Android has a specific page for color correction settings.
Here, color-blind users can toggle between several color correction modes. Each mode helps with different degrees of color blindness. Android offers two red-green correction modes: Deuteranomaly for those who struggle with green and Protanomaly for those who have trouble with red.
There is also a Tritanomaly mode for people who have difficulty distinguishing blue colors. Finally, there is a grayscale mode that helps those who cannot see any colors at all.
These methods for color correction help balance colors so that people with deuteranomaly, protanomaly, tritanomaly, or monochromacy can better distinguish them. Without these corrections, apps, images, or other content may show colors that look very similar to colorblind users.
Android provides a chart at the top of the color correction settings page. This chart shows how colors are affected by each mode, allowing users to review changes before applying them system-wide. Android 15 might include an intensity slider in the color correction settings. This slider is not available in the latest Android 15 Beta 3.1 release yet.
The slider will have three levels: low, medium, and high. These levels adjust the intensity of color balance changes for each correction mode. There is also a gallery showing how the intensity slider affects red-green (deuteranomaly) and blue-yellow (tritanomaly) color balances. As you can see, each color is dramatically affected by the slider. This helps compensate for different degrees of deuteranomaly, protanomaly, or tritanomaly.
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Everyone has different needs, so adding more personal options to Android’s color settings can help color-blind users. Some feel that the current options don’t work well for them. I can’t speak for these users, but if you live with color vision deficiency, tell us if this change in Android 15 would help you. If it would, explain how in the comments section.
