Handicap of Abnormal Vision
Abnormal colour vision has been recognised as a handicap in some occupations and for many everyday tasks for more than 150 years.
Edinburgh Chemistry Professor George Wilson was the first to report that abnormal colour vision was common and in 1855 wrote about the danger of abnormal colour vision for railway men and seafarers. It can be a handicap in any occupation in which colours are used to code information, and it can be a problem at school where colours are used to identify or group objects, and in sport and art.
This virtual issue gives quick access to the full text of papers on the handicap of abnormal colour vision, which have been published in Clinical and Experimental Optometry since 1970.