As another colorblind developer, I have trouble paying attention to the syntax 
highlighting. I didn’t even notice that member variables were colored until 
someone mentioned it on this list.


> On May 23, 2016, at 9:43 AM, Jeff Kelley via swift-evolution 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> As a colorblind developer, this isn’t really an issue. The vast majority of 
> colorblind people can discern colors. As long as the IDE allows you to 
> customize which colors it displays, you can find a palette that will work 
> with your eyes (for my type of colorblindness, for instance, I have 
> difficulty differentiating blue and purple, so I wouldn’t use both in my 
> syntax highlighting color scheme). As long as color isn’t the only thing 
> differentiating on-screen elements, adding colors to syntax highlighting is 
> beneficial even to us colorblind developers. :)
> 
> 
> Jeff Kelley
> 
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> 
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>> On May 23, 2016, at 12:24 PM, Krystof Vasa via swift-evolution 
>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>>> The problem can also be easily mitigated by having the IDE use a different 
>>> color to display a variable based on where it was defined (eclipse come to 
>>> mind as an example). This is something the brain naturally notices without 
>>> paying any conscious attention.
>> 
>> Tell that to the colorblind :)
>> 
>>> 
>>>> -- E
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