Jeremy Portzer said: > On Sun, 2002-10-06 at 19:46, Tanner Lovelace wrote: >> >> As far as the side progress indicators are concerned, do you have any >> numbers on how many people are red-green color blind *enough so that >> the side bar is useless to them*? Also, like I said >> before, the sidebar, while nice, is not integral to the functioning of >> the installer. You can do everything in the installer without having >> to worry about the sidebar. > > A large number of people are red-green colorblind; I've seen anything > from 8% to 12% of Caucasian males. Anecdotally, my father is > colorblind, the guy across the hall is, and so is my next-door > neighbor. (For females it's only about 0.5% of the population due to > the X-linked nature of red-green colorblindness.) Almost all "real > world" interfaces, such as traffic signals and signs, retail packaging, > etc, is designed with this in mind. There are plenty of other colors to > choose from!
It's funny. OpenNMS has an issue in its GUI that affects those with red/green color blindness. We haven't really had time to address it, but we need to. I used to give training courses on OpenNMS, and the usual class size was around 10 people - almost always male. In *every* class I had at least one person with red/green color blindness. -T -- Tarus Balog Consultant Sortova Consulting Group, http://www.sortova.com +1-919-696-7625 [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
