>  However this is pursued some thought should be given to the choices of 
colors to meet W3C accessibility standards.

Yes, this is an important consideration. 👍

Ed

On Wednesday, January 7, 2026 at 11:49:48 AM UTC-8 [email protected] wrote:

> However this is pursued some thought should be given to the choices of 
> colors to meet W3C accessibility standards. For example red and green are 
> used to differentiate symbols in the screenshot. This is a bad choice as a 
> significant fraction of the population is red/green color blind.
>
>
>
> On Wednesday, January 7, 2026 at 1:23:33 PM UTC-6 [email protected] wrote:
>
>> I agree with the value of colorization. I was just experimenting with 
>> coloring passwords with different colors for lower case, uppercase, and 
>> digits/punctuation after realizing that I kind of use tone in mental 
>> recitation to indicate uppercase. In the same spirit it might be 
>> interesting to have colors for variables of interest, other variables, and 
>> constants.
>>
>> /c
>> On Tuesday, January 6, 2026 at 9:03:13 AM UTC-6 [email protected] wrote:
>>
>>> Ed,
>>>
>>> The coloring is sort of cool. Am I correct that the intention to help 
>>> people visualize what is known and what is being solved for?
>>>
>>> If you are interested in using Sympy for algebraic manipulations I 
>>> suggest you look at my package Algebra_with_Sympy 
>>> <https://gutow.github.io/Algebra_with_Sympy/algebra_with_sympy.html> 
>>> because 
>>> the plain vanilla Eq class you are using can collapse to True or False 
>>> unexpectedly. Algebra_with_Sympy implements an additional equation class 
>>> that will not collapse. Along with many convenience tools for doing step 
>>> wise algebra in IPython environments (including Jupyter notebooks, with 
>>> typeset expressions). There is no color coding tools in Algebra_with_Sympy, 
>>> but if you are interested in collaborating, I think it would not be a 
>>> difficult addition.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Jonathan
>>>
>>> On Monday, January 5, 2026 at 7:50:51 PM UTC-6 [email protected] 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello 🙋‍♂️
>>>>
>>>> I've been experimenting with using colors for symbols in equations:
>>>>
>>>> [image: Untitled.png]
>>>>
>>>> First I display the list of equations.
>>>> `values` is a dict of symbols and their numerical values.
>>>> `want` is the symbol I want to solve for.
>>>>
>>>> `display_equations_`:
>>>> shows the `values` symbols in green
>>>> shows the `want` symbol in red
>>>>
>>>> I then solve the system of equations for the wanted symbol.
>>>>
>>>> The result is displayed:
>>>> red on the left
>>>> only greens on the right
>>>>
>>>> Question:
>>>> Is there already a library out there for this?
>>>> Just wanted to review similar projects if there are any.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you!
>>>> Ed
>>>>
>>>

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