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Re: Strategic Rating (Was: Re: Next and Prev buttons or links)
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lugnet.admin.general
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Fri, 31 Mar 2000 16:47:56 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Susan Hoover writes:
> Just an FYI... Human interface guidelines suggest that color should
> never be the sole carrier of information, for several reasons. The
> obvious reason is so that people with difficulty distinguishing colors
> or shades of gradation can use your system. Another reason is that
> different colors mean different things in different cultures. In some
> countries, for example, white (not black) is the color of mourning.
very good point that I didn't consider... Is putting an ALT caption still
considered not good enough? that way, if you point over the color, it'll tell
you the numerical value of it?
> The same thing goes for icons. A picture that is "intuitively obvious"
> to one person may leave another scratching his head. (At a software
> company I used to work for, we had a feature for "freezing" a column.
> The icon was at one point a thermometer with a very low mercury level,
> which confused the heck out of our Japanese customers. Their idioms
> don't include freeze = hold in place.)
heh, yah, that wouldn't have occured to me either. What did they use instead,
to fix it?
:)
Dan
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