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Subject: Re: Does colour in multiple threads disadvantage colour blind members?

Author: Jeremiah Penery

Date: 20:22:05 12/07/00

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On December 07, 2000 at 22:19:36, David Eppstein wrote:

>On December 07, 2000 at 22:02:14, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>
>>On December 07, 2000 at 20:16:46, Alastair Allan wrote:
>>
>>>I am red/green colour blind and can barely make out what is presented in light
>>>green (if that is what it is) which to me does not contrast well with the
>>>background. I would guess that 5% or so of the membership will be similarly
>>>troubled.
>>
>>I can barely make it out either, and I am not color blind.  I would have no
>>problem if it was made black again, but if it has to be a color, could you
>>handle dark purple or dark green or something like that?
>>
>>bruce
>
>From a brief glance at a deeper thread, it looks like they start in a
>hard-to-read light green, and then progressively get darker and bluer, leading
>to an ok dark purple color by the fourth level.  Maybe if they just reversed the
>sequence and started with the dark purple it would be ok?  I don't mind being
>unable to read the light green quotations if they're from messages four levels
>back.

When I first started reading posts tonight (after the change) the only color
difference I noticed was the light-green ones.  At first glance, all the other
levels looked the same normal black.  Until I looked closer in several other
threads (and saw it mentioned that each level of quoting was colored
differently), I didn't notice the difference at all.  I still think that if it
can be done, each user should be able to set "preferences" for the color(s) of
quoted text.  I would choose all levels of previous quoting to be red and the
normal text to be black, but I know a ton of people would absolutely hate it.



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