In the game of Uno,Watch The Running Mates: Human Rights Online knowing the color of a card is just as important as knowing its number, which means some colorblind players can be at a serious disadvantage. But now Mattel is fixing that — the company just announced a new accessible version of Uno, made with ColorADD cards.
SEE ALSO: Woman creates board game about arranged marriages based on her experience getting out of oneFor the new version of the classic card game, Mattel partnered with ColorADD, a global organization for colorblind accessibility and education, to add internationally recognized symbols to Uno cards, aimed to help people with colorblindness identify the colors of the cards.
Here's a key that explains how the symbols work with the Unocards and other colors:
Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable In Uno, players take turns laying down cards from their hands, and the card they play must match either the color or the number of the last card played. Colorblindness affects around 350 million people around the world, so adding ColorADD symbols to Uno cards opens the game up to many people who may have had difficulty playing previously.
Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable Accessibility features like the ColorADD symbols is extremely important for companies like Mattel to be aware of, because otherwise large numbers of people could be inadvertently left out of playing classic games like Uno, which first came out 46 years ago.
The new colorblind-accessible version of Unois available now on Mattel's website.
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