Inability to distinguish between error messages, if colourblind etc

[jamesweiner]

Might be a good idea to make the error messages have more colour contrast, and possibly throw in some icons too?

[nimbupani]

Can it be confirmed? I asked @tabatkins and he says it is pretty contrasting to him.

Also, I see no reason why icons would enhance the message.

[tabatkins]

Both the alerts and message blocks are sufficiently contrasting to be easily distinguishable to my brand of color-blindness (moderate blue/green, mild red/green)

[fat]

Icons definitely won't be added because we want to keep this project to a single resource.

We asked a few color bind people around the office -- and they too had no problem with the color contrast.

Closing for now -- feel free to reopen if you find evidence which says otherwise.

[stephanerangaya]

Icons would definitely enhance the message. For people with Protanopia or Deuteranopia (2% of males*), they can't see a difference between a success and a warning. IMO, increasing the contrast will not help, but adding icons will.

Check out these simulations http://imageshack.us/g/40/dys1.png/

(You can try by yourself by downloading this software: http://michelf.com/projects/sim-daltonism/)

• According to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness#Dichromacy

[fat]

You can very easily add your own icons -- the alerts are flexible enough for that.

[stephanerangaya]

I agree.