I didn't expect color to become a discussion point. Since we are
discussing..
If not red and green are most problematic, can you suggest any other
colors are less problematic ?
I was curious as to what if any guidelines W3C provided with respect to
using
color in web content. I googled and found the following link to
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 .(
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG/ )
and in this document, the following sections:
- a section on use of color (
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG/#visual-audio-contrast )
- Use of Color: Understanding SC 1.4 (**
http://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/visual-audio-contrast-without-color.html
)
- a section on use of text alternatives (
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG/#text-equiv ).
I will look at adding text alternative to the output (also as Bill
suggested).
In the meantime, hopefully the output in its current form is still usable
by 95% of developers for finding and fixing the message ids.
Thanks,
Sekhar
Lloyd Chambers wrote:
> ~5% of the population has color deficient vision.
>
> Red and green are most problematic (and garish)
>
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> On Oct 16, 2009, at 1:32 PM, Sekhar Vajjhala wrote:
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>>> Red and green text is not the best choice of colors. Better to add
>>> text or separate the output into two lists.
>>
>> What is the problem with red and green ? After I sent the message, I did
>> notice that the colors (green in particular) was hard to read on another
>> display ( not my PC). I still like the color encoding scheme.
>> Perhaps I can
>> look at web safe colors.
>
> Lloyd Chambers
> lloyd.chambers_at_sun.com
> GlassFish Team
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