On 15 Jul 2007, at 13:48, Alexander Gabriel wrote:



Indeed.
I am colorblind and I would really appreaciate it if the UI wouldn't
rely on red vs. green to distinguish things like online/offline users
and such. And there are loads of colorblind people out there. One look
into Wikipedia might help a lot and of course there are even more
elaborate sources to extract helpful information from.

Yeah, it's always better to use different shapes and have a large difference in contrast.

Blue is the colour which people have the most trouble with, men are more likely to have colour blindness too.

Accessibility options are one way you can broaden the appeal of a device such as this.




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