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Isaac Physics historic front-end project, based on Angular JS
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Colour blindness... #725

Open ghost opened 8 years ago

ghost commented 8 years ago

I am slightly red-green colour blind. I believe this is the most common kind of colour-blindedness affecting up to ~10% of males. When I opened https://isaacphysics.org/questions/energy_of_bullet_num , I could barely see that, in the message "This question has been replaced by this question.", the "this question" bit is of different colour to the rest. I would have problably missed it completely if I were paying less attention and (importantly) were not expecting a link.

Can I suggest that we change the red to another colour? This might be of help...

Morpheu5 commented 8 years ago

I'm in favour of changing the colour. We could also underline the link.

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I am slightly red-green colour blind. I believe this is the most common kind of colour-blindedness affecting up to ~10% of males. When I opened https://isaacphysics.org/questions/energy_of_bullet_num , I could barely see that, in the message "This question has been replaced by this question.", the "this question" bit is of different colour to the rest. I would have problably missed it completely if I were paying less attention and (importantly) were not expecting a link.

Can I suggest that we change the red to another colour? This http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v8/n6/full/nmeth.1618.html?WT.ec_id=NMETH-201106 might be of help...

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ghost commented 8 years ago

Ok. I am happy to be a test subject for the new choice...

jsharkey13 commented 8 years ago

I'm not sure I am a fan of changing the colour; it's a global thing that all links on Isaac are green and that warnings are that shade of red.

However, I agree that it's hard for even non-colour blind people to tell it's a link (aside from the text making it obvious) - so it must be nigh impossible for you! Would Andrea's second suggestion of underlining the link make enough difference for you? If it would, and/or bolding it a bit more would, that would be my preferred course. If it wouldn't make enough difference, then we should indeed rethink colours!

Morpheu5 commented 8 years ago

Underlying links is the widely accepted solution to this kind of issue. Designers gonna hate, though… :)

2016-07-22 15:26 GMT+01:00 James Sharkey notifications@github.com:

I'm not sure I am a fan of changing the colour; it's a global thing that all links on Isaac are green and that warnings are that shade of red.

However, I agree that it's hard for even non-colour blind people to tell it's a link (aside from the text making it obvious) - so it must be nigh impossible for you! Would Andrea's second suggestion of underlining the link make enough difference for you? If it would, and/or bolding it a bit more would, that would be my preferred course. If it wouldn't make enough difference, then we should indeed rethink colours!

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ghost commented 8 years ago

I don't oppose underlining. Would this be applied globally (all links anywhere on Isaac) or just in this context?

Morpheu5 commented 8 years ago

We could say that this only applies when there is ambiguity, but then it would be inconsistent with the rest of the site. However, we already have inconsistencies here and there…