I made some slight modifications to the circles (added some symbols): https://dl.dropbox.com/u/7027392/status-spheres-screenshot2.png
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Thibaut Brandscheid <randal...@web.de>wrote: > On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 11:01 PM, Sam Hewitt <hewittsam...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> I'm sort of redacting some things: accounting for folks with >> colour-vision deficiencies the circles aren't the best scheme. >> > > Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness>: > *Color blindness *(red-green)* affects a significant percentage of the > population... > > About 8 percent of males, but only 0.5 percent of females, > are color blind in some way or another...* > > I thought about it and what it means to the messaging indicator (IM > status). > Here are my points and why I think we should still go for it: > > - an envelope icon shape that doesn't change looks cleaner > - most colour-vision deficiency people will still be able to see the > blue notification > - the current IM status in the menu is prefixed by a small dot and > postfixed by text > - IM has to be turned explicit on --> the user knows he's online > > At the end colour-vision deficiency people can mostly do exactly the same > as not affected people. The only difference is, they have to check their IM > status inside the menu. > > > Maybe the 'System Settings'->'Universal Access' menu could be extended for > colour-vision deficiency people: > > - add a way to change the default signal colors to another one > - ship with a second icon sets for affected people that replaces > various icons e.g. the envelope by different shapes (triangle, circle...) > >
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