Hey all. On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 16:38 -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > On 5 July 2011 16:08, Joanmarie Diggs <joan...@gnome.org> wrote: > > Figure 3 is a *perfect* example of the sorts of problems I have with our > > "traditional" high-contrast stuff, and why I personally prefer keeping > > some color: What is the horizontal white stripe that extends on either > > side of the clock face? Is it a watch band which runs on top of three > > black vertical pieces, or is it background/empty space separating the > > three top black pieces from the bottom three? I genuinely don't know. > > Figure-ground and me, we've never gotten along well.... <shrugs and > > smiles> > > Joanie, I saw figure 3 as a time bomb and the white band is simply a > rubber band or something to keep the clock attached to the dynamite.
Ohhhh.... Thanks! On a related note, this makes Figure 3 an even more perfect example of the problem (imho) with our traditional high-contrast stuff. Go off and do a google image search for dynamite. What color do you see overwhelmingly present in the results? Ain't black.... ;-) In fact, I bet you don't even have to search to know what the right answer is. I have never understood the value of stripping out color at the cost of stripping out meaning. Making those sticks a deep red would be just about the same (high) contrast whilst preserving more of the context. --joanie _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
