Hi Paul, thank you for your note. I think it has nothing to do with being color blind in this case. Even for me who is not color blind, I also have a problem squinting my eye to see what those words are. But red is typically used for non-existent page... unless I change the color of the bar to create contrast. But in the meantime, I think not being able to read those non-existent links is better than being able to do it. It results in less clutter. Once the page is written, those links become white so they become highly visible. So there is good reason for keeping things as it is at the moment. I will change it one day when circumstances change.. ie. when there are a few active contributors. But looking at my past 2 years record, I am not so optimistic, LOL... hence my apparent reluctance to do so at the moment.
PM Poon On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:00 PM, Paul C Lustgarten <[email protected]>wrote: > Poon, > > I'll second Katharina's recommendation to leave your banner positioned > and (non-) colored, as it is. > > What prompted me to go look at your site, though, was Katharina's > comment about the potential difficulty someone who is color-blind (as > we call it, at least here in the U.S.) might have with your red menu > items against the green background. Being color-blind myself, I > thought it would be interesting to see an example where it matters. > > So I pulled up your site, and spent a minute or two hunting around the > page trying to find out what she was referring to, and thinking you > must have changed it already, since I couldn't find anything like that. > > Then I saw your followup, which suggested you hadn't (yet) changed it, > looked at the page again ..... oooohhh, those funny gaps in the menus > there below the "Log in" line - I see now, there's shimmery red text > hiding there! :-) So yes, very effectively near invisible! > > And kudos to Katharina for thinking of us color blind folks - it's an > issue that doesn't seem to get a lot of, um, visibility :-) > > Paul > > > On Aug 14, 2009, at 2:54 AM, Katharina Wolkwitz wrote: > > > Hi Poon, > > > > I like the banner the way it is - on the left side of the screen. > > Zooming it to > > fill the whole screen-width would "blow it up" too much. > > > > But I've got a visibility problem with your menu-bar. The red menu- > > items are > > very hard to see on the dark green background. I guess people with > > limited sight > > or those with red green (colour) deficiency might have problems > > seeing those > > items at all. > > > > Best wishes > > Katharina > > > > > > Ekompute .info schrieb am 13.08.2009 20:47: > >> Hi Mike, my website is http://dummipedia.org > >> > >> I am referring to the topmost row. > >> > >> Regards, > >> PM Poon > > ______________ > Paul C Lustgarten > Applied Research, Enterprise 2.0 > AT&T Labs - Research > Florham Park, NJ > +1 973 360 7206 > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > -- PM Poon * http://dummipedia.org The 5-Minute Concise Encyclopedia * http://dummipedia.com The Dummipedia Amazon Online Store _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
