# What do colour-blind football fans report about TV graphics (shootouts, cards, substitution boards), and what remedies did they propose?

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A 2018 focus group of 8 colour-blind male football fans, run for Colour Blind Awareness and co-funded by the FA and Fans for Diversity, reports TV penalty-shootout graphics as the clearest broadcast graphics problem: green and red balls for scored and missed penalties, with small blocks making it worse. Their proposed fix is a tick or cross. They also report difficulty telling red and yellow cards on TV and not noticing the red number on substitution boards. This is self-reported, small-sample, advocacy-organisation evidence with untested remedies; it is consistent in direction with the BBC Trust decision's accepted remedy of adding labels.

A 2018 focus group of 8 colour-blind male football fans, run for Colour Blind Awareness and co-funded by the FA and Fans for Diversity, reports TV penalty-shootout graphics as the clearest broadcast graphics problem: green and red balls for scored and missed penalties, with small blocks making it worse. Their proposed fix is a tick or cross. They also report difficulty telling red and yellow cards on TV and not noticing the red number on substitution boards. This is self-reported, small-sample, advocacy-organisation evidence with untested remedies; it is consistent in direction with the BBC Trust decision's accepted remedy of adding labels.

Curator qualifications: All 9 excerpts located; 8-person focus group report (Colour Blind Awareness, FA co-funded); qualitative.

Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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      "url": "https://www.thefa.com/news/2017/jun/19/colour-blindness-guidance-190617",
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Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] A 2018 focus group of 8 colour-blind male football fans, run for Colour Blind Awareness and co-funded by the FA and Fans for Diversity, reports TV penalty-shootout graphics as the clearest broadcast graphics problem: green and red balls for scored and missed penalties, with small blocks making it worse. Their proposed fix is a tick or cross. They also report difficulty telling red and yellow cards on TV and not noticing the red number on substitution boards. This is self-reported, small-sample, advocacy-organisation evidence with untested remedies; it is consistent in direction with the BBC Trust decision's accepted remedy of adding labels. · locator: candidate evidence excerpts · source: https://www.colourblindawareness.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Colour-Blind-Awareness-Report-of-Fans-Focus-Group.pdf

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