Well I have created my own way of seeing the colour. I mainly use
Lee Filters and there broucher is very useful gives a nice discription of the colours. Well I have designed a number of show, and nobody has said anything about them to date!
Ok now from an electrics
point of view, I am unable to go to college here, as part of the application you have to pass a colour blindness test. However seeing the difference in
wire colour is more simple for me!
The first statement for me says lazy. What specific color blindness are you and how lazy as I am are you in openly saying you cannot see color normally thus I'll just use the description without developing your own way of seeing color that while it might be different still works for the most part.
Second statement to me this seems like something lawyers can easily defend your equal opportunity to access to in having a as it were disability. Application for color blindness disqualifying you from education and career? Yep even if you don't get greedy, that could easily pay for your education once you win that lawsuite and I don't expect that even if across the pond it would not easily be won.
Still the question of just how color
blind are you will be a factor and an important one. Not stated is the class of it and extent of it. Sure if everything is a shade of grey that might be a problem in limiting your ability but even if that bad.... nothing worse than being in a wheel chair and attempting to get an eduction in the theater. No, you cannot do everything but there is use and should be no
road blocks. I would challenge and fight that. Should you need, I can furnish that from my own experience that should help. Yes Red and Green confusion, yet this did not prevent me from joining and later gaining a E-5 ranking in the U.S. Marines, this much less becoming successful in design and production for lighting and set. Yes my color blindness does not optimize my usefulness in some ways, and the degree to which I was did not keep me out of the military in not being able to see someones say red star on a green helmit, still as a general class of medical disability, it didn't hold me back or should not you. Fight it.
Remember way back when the doctors that determined I was color
blind told me I should not attempt a job at the phone company due to the colored stripes in the
wire and somewhat valid if you got into a seriously colored
multi-cable type phone cable. That was years before
ethernet came out. I do that type of cable a good deal and don't have a problem with say a orange verses brown and or any other colors in getting such wiring right. Do it as part of my living as with phone cable, 16 or even 20 pair sound
snake cable that's colored these days. Color blindness as a industry pro doesn't limit my ability, and besides that I test everyting I do. The old concept of doing something mutil-phase just doesn't come up. Yes I can tell the difference between the red and blue
wire, much less I can see a green
wire next to a red one. Would say a industry pro, it has not held me back.
But again, that specifically depends upon the degree of colorblindness. I perhaps am not as bad off as someone else. If truely say in the grey range for all color, while you can compensate, perhaps you need someone to overlook your work. On the other
hand... no reason not to educate you due to a medical condition... that goes back to locking up those with a medical condition so they cannot expose others. - normal. Take on the schools requirement and win.
In going into the military there was some fields due to the degree of color blindness I was not able to do such as communiscator.. it did not prevent service to my country overall and I didn't want those fields anyway. In Field Artillery, while yes there is green shells with red triangles as markings which do mean something as designation, what diagnosis I had was not sufficient to prevent me from joining. This for a field where what shell I chose or later as the crew chief in verification of what shell was loaded into the 155mm killing everyone in a 30 yard radious when the shell went down range gun and being yearly tested as to what I was able to do and memorize sufficiently by way of shell/
fuse combinations could realistically kill people and had many times before, color blindness never played a factor. I was color
blind and ensured in excelling in the miltary every year by way of testing only pilots also get tested on, that such a hamper on what I saw did not kill anyone. This no matter light or dark, I could ensure the proper shell got fired in years of experience with peoples lives depending on that color blindness not playing a factor.
I say discrimination in your rejection and I am sure the local news paper, much less the local propriator of the law would given famous color
blind designers and others pro in the field having successful careers agree that it is an open and shut case that you would win in if qualified otherwise, color blindness should not
play a factor in this field of study. This no matter what even degree of colorblindness you have and there is degrees but just as one with a weel chair cannot be a rigger to it's fullest extent, one can still be. One in acquiring a education = just education for lighting while having a much more easy medical condition as color
blind should not be blocked from an education.
Again, need my resume as a professional if needed, and or medical files to back that up... just ask but I expect it won't be needed once you give a shot to the school and education you want and denied. On the other
hand, paint by numbers ain't design....
Lee filters have numbers and descriptions but it means nothing to what art is created. You have a job as a designer and it is not paint by numbers. This no matter what disability in seeing things the way everyone else does.
At the start of such a fight are we absolutely sure that it is not lazy eye color in testing, lazy taking the extra moment to see the letter or number within the dots - even at times while hard seeing it still? This much less given an acceptance of medical condition, laziness in choosing color by the number and description that prevented you from being chosen for the school? Possible in being a serious discussion that you were rejected due to ability or at least choices made and the color blindness more a crutch. Not always easy but for all one must try. Believe me, I have been right on that cutting
edge for able to get in or not and understand what is easy or not in this color
blind and living with it way of not spending that extra moment to choose and give an extea look even if not easy or what you really can see at times is not easy and even gives you a headache in looking at.
There is various forms and extents of color blindness and it is a very common condition. Could be extreme but also could be a more laziness I would wish to ensure against before say going to the wall in defending the disability of. Earning ability to go to the school is also a factor no doubt if not rejected specifically and only medically by way of a failed test potentially not as much failed by way of not seeing but not as much taking ones time and trying.
I have looked at the dot matrex thingies, and perhaps while not as color
blind, I also know how easy it would be to say I cannot see something when not as easy without effort. First I would advise attempt the test again, than if really not being able to see the number or something within the dots, go for the disability education in it not being fair to be rejected for school because of it. Stilll with varying degrees of this very
broad classification that I would say most people have a form of.