On 31-08-12 16:15, Berry Mobley wrote:

Do any of you do any color vision screening in your interview process? How do those of you with color vision impairments compensate? I'd never considered this until I was in one of our facilities with my son (who has limited color vision) and we had a discussion about the LEDs. He could only determine on/off - not amber/red/green on the equipment we had. I'm wondering if we need a color vision requirement (or test) as part of our hiring requirements.

I have troubles with orange-yellow-greenish colors. Red is fine, most of greens as well. Already 15 years within the industry, several different jobs. Nobody ever asked me, but I think I mentioned it to all potential employers during interviews. For some of them it was funny or even interesting but I don't think anybody considered it as my disadvantage. Despite in most cases I cannot tell amber LED from yellow or orange one, I don't think it affects my duties. Usually different colors have also different luminosity, so shortly you learn characteristics of different products, like that with Cisco amber is the "darker one". I have also seen blades with broken LED's that had all the colors but one (like 6704 port with green and no amber), so to be 100% sure one should always check the console. -- Grzegorz Janoszka