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After 46 years of being a notoriously hard game for those who are colorblind, Mattel is launching a new Uno deck designed to be more inclusive. The new Uno ColorADD deck costs $5.99 and contains extra graphic symbols that represent the primary colors, so that it’s easier to tell between red, yellow, green, and blue cards. The deck is named after ColorADD, a global organization founded in Portugal to aid those who are colorblind, and the symbols are part of a code ColorADD created to help identify colors.
An estimated 350 million people in the world, including 13 million in the US, are affected by some form of colorblindness. Red and green, which Uno features prominently, are often the most problematic colors.
Although Mattel, which owns…
https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/6/16262046/uno-colorblind-accessibility-inclusiveness-46-years