Code Page 437 // Ishihara #17

In order to understand what you see before your eyes you must first open this artwork in both Firefox and any other web browser of your choice, at the same time, to experience it as intended.

A combination of ishihara palettes and cross-browser bugs are used to explore neurodiversity by forcing the viewer to take additional manual steps to see the world from a different perspective. A whole new understanding of colour blindness should unfold as you struggle through inaccessibility yourself.

The 640x400px canvas consists of 25 rows, with 80 columns per row for a total of 2000 letters, using only 16 glyphs from the Codepage 437 character set scaled to a resolution of 8x16 pixels per character.

Codepage 437 is the original IBM PC-ASCII font from August 1981, often referred to as the DOS font.