No. On purpose. Screw those freakin weirdos.
Is your website colorblind friendly?
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Re: Is your website colorblind friendly?
#12You should read this article if you're a (mobile) application developer. It's not just webpages that have colour.
Re: Is your website colorblind friendly?
#13When I first learned about HTML, one of its touted features was the ability for people with different disabilities to use custom browsers that interpret the tags differently. For instance, text to speech.
Today, it's my perception that web design has gone graphical, to the point where it would seem vastly more difficult to make sense of typical web pages using adaptive technologies.
And as I approach old age, I find myself struggling with web pages, for instance having to use the "find" feature to find simple things on pages such as the login button.
Re: Is your website colorblind friendly?
#14When I first learned about HTML, one of its touted features was the ability for people with different disabilities to use custom browsers that interpret the tags differently. For instance, text to speech. Today, it's my perception that web design has gone graphical, to the point where it would seem vastly more difficult to make sense of typical web pages using adaptive technologies. And as I approach old age, I find…
I think the "appification of the web", where information is increasingly presented in a custom UI that is supposed to resemble a desktop application, is largely to blame for that, along with the tendency to emphasise form over function (although this is not restricted to the web, it seems to happen whenever people whose only job is to design, and not also create content as well, is present) since there's a general perception that the more "designed" (with graphical elements that are not necessarily useful, distracting animations, multicoloured things whose only purpose is to be attention-getting, etc.) a webpage the better it is. The effect is to emphasise presentation over content, which doesn't please those who are more interested in the latter and certainly isn't any better for accessibility. The overuse of and reliance on Javascript doesn't help matters either. In fact I'd say the web has become less accessible now as compared to e.g. 20 years ago.
Re: Is your website colorblind friendly?
#15When I first learned about HTML, one of its touted features was the ability for people with different disabilities to use custom browsers that interpret the tags differently. For instance, text to speech. Today, it's my perception that web design has gone graphical, to the point where it would seem vastly more difficult to make sense of typical web pages using adaptive technologies. And as I approach old age, I find…
I think the "appification of the web", where information is increasingly presented in a custom UI that is supposed to resemble a desktop application, is largely to blame for that, along with the tendency to emphasise form over function (although this is not restricted to the web, it seems to happen whenever people whose only job is to design, and not also create content as well, is present) since there's a general pe…
In Firefox, when I find a page that is beautifully inaccessible:
View/Page Style/No Style
which gives me beautiful, high contrast black on white, and text that flows fully within the borders of the browser without having to scroll sideways.
Re: Is your website colorblind friendly?
#16Honestly, the only thing that has ever been a problem to me in terms of usability as a person with strong protanopia is sites that mess with link highlight colors. Just leave it up to the browser defaults what color links show up in(visited or not) and all should be fine, I've never had any usability problems aside from this. Actually, no, that's not entirely true, this chart [1] that I saw today is a really bad culp…
Using this bookmarklet, is the graph better or worse? javascript:(function()%7B%7Bfunction%20%24(el%2Csel%2Ccb)%7BArray.prototype.forEach.call(el.querySelectorAll(sel)%2Ccb)%3B%7Dfunction%20fix(el%2Cbgcol%2Ctxtcol)%7Bel.style.backgroundColor%3Dbgcol%3Bel.style.color%3Dtxtcol%3B%24(el%2C%22*%22%2Cfunction(el)%7Bel.style.color%3Dtxtcol%3Bif(el.tagName%3D%3D%3D%22A%22)%7Bel.style.textDecoration%3D%22underline%22%3B%7D%7…
Significantly better.
Before the change I can see the two colors on "Ender's Game", since that's the only place they are side by side. All of the blocks which only have one of "Novels" or "Short Stories / Enderverse" I struggle to tell which it is. "Short Stories" is quite distinct from the other two colors.