One thing I found out blind is a spectrum. Even those that can be classified as 100 and legally blind, sometimes still see dark shadows within a dark field. It’s not so clear cut and dry. It’s interesting for sure.
I'm disabled and active in the disabled community so I have a pretty wide experience with different disabilities, so maybe I can help add some context for future videos on this topic, as I'd love to see an artwork based on tartan that aims to explain it to people who cannot see tartan. It's such a cool fabric and having an example artwork would give others a way of recreating that themselves at home for their loved ones. Even the description as you're making it would let many blind people not only understand it based on your explanation, but allow them to follow along and make an artwork for themselves. Colour blindness is about one or more of the cones in the eyes not being properly able to perceive its relevant light source. They're a trio of CMY (Cyan, Magenta & Yellow) like the inks in your printer and it's akin to running out of one of those inks, so none of the colours on the image that need that colour turn out the way they should. Greens turn into browns and yellows, for example, due to a lack of Cyan. There's a bunch of different types of colour blindness, but unless it's connected with other problems with the eyes, generally only affects vision and is separate to blindness itself. But she definitely doesn't mean that she is colour blind. She's saying she can see colour and that's why she understands tartan, while her husband does not. I don't know what parts of her sight are affected and I wouldn't dare to guess. She can obviously see colour but may not be able to see it in focus, or might not have a wide visual field. Some types of blindness are kind of like looking through a straw, while others are like a camera that's out of focus or static across their visual field. Sometimes it's a mixture of many different issues. There are many different parts of the eye that can be damaged or not work properly, just like a camera and the lenses you use to film or take photos. If you breathe on the lens, it creates a fogged up effect that is very similar to things like cataracts which is often described as cloudiness and this can be mild or severe, and part of the visual field or all of it. It may even vary across the visual field. Some people can see things like the light reflecting off sequins or glass. Like if you dimmed your contrast and brightness way down, the shiny things are what's left. If I was explaining it to someone with little to no usable vision, I think I would aim to recreate those stripes with textures. You could do so with things like oil paint and watercolour, sand, fabric, etc. To show how those textures mix together and change based on what they're under or over. Also, just as a side note: It's great that you include a transcription as they're helpful for a lot of people, but automatically generated subtitles are terrible and neither those nor a transcription are a substitute for proper captions for a huge part of the Deaf community. If your goal is to make your channel more accessible, prioritising proper captioning would be an excellent step to take. When I'm editing videos on other platforms, I use the auto-generated ones as a basis, then edit them to make them accurate and into full sentences with punctuation. It still takes forever, especially because I'm Deaf myself, but it's what I need to do to meet my own personal goals in terms of accessibility and does at least make it a lot quicker. (Honestly, the majority of people who need captions cannot use either a transcript or auto-generated subtitles. I rely on captions and end up turning off auto-craptions because they're so bad. I'd rather take my chances of misunderstanding what I think is being said because somehow my hearing is still more accurate than them and that's a very low bar.)
Wouldn't the "easiest" tactile artistic representation of a tartan be to use different feeling yarns (of the same thickness)? That way, the tartan is still made of fabric (which to my mind is the basis of a tartan) and the intersections of different fabrics would also come about more naturally (versus artificially, as would be the case with tactile painting techniques). As a bonus, I also think it'd look neat.
One thing I found out blind is a spectrum. Even those that can be classified as 100 and legally blind, sometimes still see dark shadows within a dark field. It’s not so clear cut and dry. It’s interesting for sure.
I'm disabled and active in the disabled community so I have a pretty wide experience with different disabilities, so maybe I can help add some context for future videos on this topic, as I'd love to see an artwork based on tartan that aims to explain it to people who cannot see tartan. It's such a cool fabric and having an example artwork would give others a way of recreating that themselves at home for their loved ones. Even the description as you're making it would let many blind people not only understand it based on your explanation, but allow them to follow along and make an artwork for themselves.
Colour blindness is about one or more of the cones in the eyes not being properly able to perceive its relevant light source. They're a trio of CMY (Cyan, Magenta & Yellow) like the inks in your printer and it's akin to running out of one of those inks, so none of the colours on the image that need that colour turn out the way they should. Greens turn into browns and yellows, for example, due to a lack of Cyan. There's a bunch of different types of colour blindness, but unless it's connected with other problems with the eyes, generally only affects vision and is separate to blindness itself.
But she definitely doesn't mean that she is colour blind. She's saying she can see colour and that's why she understands tartan, while her husband does not. I don't know what parts of her sight are affected and I wouldn't dare to guess.
She can obviously see colour but may not be able to see it in focus, or might not have a wide visual field. Some types of blindness are kind of like looking through a straw, while others are like a camera that's out of focus or static across their visual field. Sometimes it's a mixture of many different issues.
There are many different parts of the eye that can be damaged or not work properly, just like a camera and the lenses you use to film or take photos. If you breathe on the lens, it creates a fogged up effect that is very similar to things like cataracts which is often described as cloudiness and this can be mild or severe, and part of the visual field or all of it. It may even vary across the visual field.
Some people can see things like the light reflecting off sequins or glass. Like if you dimmed your contrast and brightness way down, the shiny things are what's left.
If I was explaining it to someone with little to no usable vision, I think I would aim to recreate those stripes with textures. You could do so with things like oil paint and watercolour, sand, fabric, etc. To show how those textures mix together and change based on what they're under or over.
Also, just as a side note: It's great that you include a transcription as they're helpful for a lot of people, but automatically generated subtitles are terrible and neither those nor a transcription are a substitute for proper captions for a huge part of the Deaf community. If your goal is to make your channel more accessible, prioritising proper captioning would be an excellent step to take.
When I'm editing videos on other platforms, I use the auto-generated ones as a basis, then edit them to make them accurate and into full sentences with punctuation. It still takes forever, especially because I'm Deaf myself, but it's what I need to do to meet my own personal goals in terms of accessibility and does at least make it a lot quicker.
(Honestly, the majority of people who need captions cannot use either a transcript or auto-generated subtitles. I rely on captions and end up turning off auto-craptions because they're so bad. I'd rather take my chances of misunderstanding what I think is being said because somehow my hearing is still more accurate than them and that's a very low bar.)
Wouldn't the "easiest" tactile artistic representation of a tartan be to use different feeling yarns (of the same thickness)? That way, the tartan is still made of fabric (which to my mind is the basis of a tartan) and the intersections of different fabrics would also come about more naturally (versus artificially, as would be the case with tactile painting techniques). As a bonus, I also think it'd look neat.
What about representing color as texture and maybe temperature? Combine them for things like red and blue.
By texture touch