TheJoin95 / covid19-market-waiting-times

A project to help people stand in line at the market as little as possible
https://www.mikilombardi.com/covid19-market-waiting-times/
MIT License
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Colour coding accessibility #11

Open bunnykat opened 4 years ago

bunnykat commented 4 years ago

UPDATE: Pop up weren't working on my phone, the details are in the popup, this still requires me to ckick on many locations as i can't tell from a high-level glance. My colour vision is not as bad as many others so i could see it being more issue for them.

I love the idea of this but it's not useful for me because it's using colour scale of green to red which is the most common colour vision deficiency. As a woman its rare to be colour blind, but for the male population your map key on wait times is useless for about 1 in 10. In my case 5 minutes looks the same as 25 mins and 45 mins looks the same as 60 plus. No matter what you're coding you should always include a label or pattern option for accessibly. Great concert though and would be wonderful even outside of the current situation.

TheJoin95 commented 4 years ago

Hi, you are absolutely right.

Making the page accessible is one of the priorities I set myself at the beginning of the project. The choice of colors was linked to the common use of traffic lights, but it can always be improved.

Unfortunately / Fortunately, due to the rapid expansion that this project has had, I have not had the way to carry on those features.

As soon as I can stabilize the traffic on the server and optimize the speed and accuracy of the information, I will focus on UI / UX and accessibility.

Unfortunately I had already received this feedback a few days ago, I am sorry I cannot be of immediate help. I am working hard on this project and any help, even your feedback, is well appreciated!

Thanks for taking the time to write here.

[UPDATE] Yes, I've got also a todo on refactoring the popup that shows the infos. Thank you for also notice me about this. I really appreciate it! :)

danieldafoe commented 4 years ago

I will look into coming up with a more accessible colour palette (as well as improving other accessibility needs) as soon as I can!