> 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 >>>> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/e54cc8f0-9c76-4c9a-b604-5ba9429882c6n%40googlegroups.com.
