jonathon wrote:
Jean wrote:
Colours often don't differentiate well when printed in
black-and-white,
There is a standard way to convert colour to B&W so that
graphics can have tactile representation. I can't find the
URL, but it is bad upon the conventions used in heraldry.
Gary Schnabl wrote:
Furthermore, I doubt that many (any?) Webmasters would eliminate colors
in their Web pages because of some potential color-blindness of viewers.
FWIW, there is a colour-blind safe web palette.
It is a modified form of the websafe colour palette.
Perhaps, the 1.3% of monochromats
Under the ADA, it doesn't matter how few people in the
population have a disability. What matters is how the
organization caters to the needs of those individuals.
xan
jonathon
It's not possible to fully placate or satisfy everybody's "handicap."
Should the US government mandate that a "pro" basketball league for
5-footers or some such be established?
My parents in a posh Milwaukee suburb (Brookfield) never purchased their
first color TV until I was well into college. Milwaukee was the first US
city to go "full color" on account of its highest _per capita viewers
nationwide with color TVs_ metric during the late 1950s/early 1960s.
Once one of the three local network affiliates went full color (channel
4), the others scrambled to go color at maximum speed lest they lose
critical market shares.
This, in turn, forced the national and regional networks to go full
color also some two years or so ahead of their own schedules. So, many
of the networks' producers of top series in B/W were forced to switch to
color also at maximum speed--comply or risk certain financial ruin.
Switching to color cost some three times as much per program to produce
back then. This also included the news--both local and network.
So, how should have the ADA have responded to this back then had the ADA
been in effect back then? Deprive those who bought color TVs during the
1950s or 1960s from enjoying it because some 1% were color-blind? How
does the ADA handle this color issue now?
Gary
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