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Cell background colors in Tables #134

Open PrattHED opened 6 years ago

PrattHED commented 6 years ago

We handle hundreds of requests for the state-mandated Basic Hunter Education course. To help our students, we manage an updated listing at https://www.mass.gov/service-details/basic-hunter-education-course-offerings

We have found that using a Service Detail page with a table of our course offerings was the best way to display the course list.

Unfortunately, tables cause a few headaches-especially for users on mobile devices.

One feature that could help students easily find OPEN vs CLOSED courses is if we could apply a color to the backgrounds of the cells related to the CLOSED courses (an example of how this would look is below).

We don't want the listing to appear as a rainbow. Either a color for CLOSED (dark red? dark orange? light gray?) OR a color for OPEN (light-not bright-green) would be helpful!

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m-aiello commented 6 years ago

I also think this could be helpful. I also agree that the color scheme should be limited to avoid making it too overwhelming. A selected color palette that fit in with the website style would be great.

joeg8612 commented 6 years ago

One issue with this is accessibility. Using color to convey this type of information would be a problem. What if you had two different tables, one for closed and one for open?

m-aiello commented 5 years ago

One issue with this is accessibility. Using color to convey this type of information would be a problem. What if you had two different tables, one for closed and one for open?

Good point about accessibility. Thanks for clarifying!