On 01/02/2015 11:51 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
James Knott composed on 2015-01-02 13:42 (UTC-0500):
One that gets me is in vi, when I have a line commented out with a #. That produces dark blue on black background that's impossible to read. Who's the genius that dreams up this stuff? It could be a case of monkey see, monkey do. That's how it seems to be in web design. On the shell cmdline, we had fdisk's author's to lead the way, and maybe other(s) (besides ls, which I rarely use except via aliases that do not declare colorization) that fail to come to mind or I never noticed.
People with anything worse than average corrected vision simply do not use computers as a primary component of their jobs or main hobbies on longer than a transitory basis. Based on years of observations using their work products, few designing web apps or PC apps, including Linux distro tool makers, exhibit significant consciousness while working of what impact their activity has on people who have below average vision but nevertheless have no need for, or should have no need for, assistive technology for using the Internet or a PC.
Viewed from the other direction, what this means is people writing software, as a group, have better than average vision, and are thus less likely than average to understand and employ A11Y automatically in their work products.
I have also seen web sides with extremely poor colour choice. Some are so bad I avoid them. While I have normal vision and can read them, it's such a pain to do so. I feel sorry for those who have vision impairments that prevent them from seeing a lot of things. This is why I find the trend to low contrast displays troubling. There are many who cannot read them, no matter how hard they try. Almost as bad are wild colour combinations that simply look terrible. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org