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Colorblindness (was: Re: Creating Lugent Rating Criteria)
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sat, 22 Apr 2000 18:22:14 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Bram Lambrecht writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> > It's subtle, but it's like that on purpose so that, basically, the more
> > red you see, the more your eye is drawn to it. (Red, biologically, has
> > the strongest draw of all colors, for non-colorblind humans.)
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> I think you should take colorblindness into consideration:
Hmm, doesn't it now? That's why it uses shades of one color (red) rather than
two colors (red & green, or red & blue, for example).
> LUGNET is predominantly male,
Well, it seems that way, but it's not necessarily so. I believe it to be
probably correct, but note that that's without real evidence -- all we
typically ever see is the names of people who have posted messages, which
doesn't of course include lurkers (which, it's known, make up by far the
total number of casual users of the system).
> and 1 in 5 males is colorblind.
> At a glance, I can't tell red text from black, which is why I suggested you
> change the background color:
> http://www.lugnet.com/admin/general/?n=6385
> The more there is of a color, the more likely I'll notice.
Are having difficulty distinguishing the presence of red from the absense of
red, or having difficulty distinguishing red from other colors? The colors
on the symbols actually start out grayish and get redder the more input is
given by people. Something marked very highly from 15 people, for example,
is bright bright bright red. I can't tell red (pink, almost) from black
(gray) when there are only a couple of inputs either -- but that's how it's
intended. That is, the less gray the highlight symbol is, the more seriously
you can take the symbol.
How about this page?--
http://www.lugnet.com/lego/?n=*1,40&v=c
Do you see red or black in the highlight column there?
> On the other hand, I think the change in font weight for the first post in a
> thread works very well. I don't know how well browsers and humans detect
> gradual changes in font weight, but I do know that it is possible to vary the
> weight using CSS...
So the degree symbols at that small point size are too pixel-deficient? Maybe
if they were shown in boldface?
--Todd
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