Re: colour of squiggles

From: Hubert Figuiere <hfiguiere_at_teaser.fr>
Date: Tue Feb 08 2005 - 17:55:29 CET

Tomas Frydrych wrote:
>
>
> We need to allow the colour of both spellchecker and grammarchecker
> squiggles to be customisable for accessibility reasons. Red and green
> are notorious for being indistinguishable by people suffering from color
> blindness.
>

I'd say that we need to have a different do distinguish them that is NOT
color. Relying on color for important UI element is notoriously bad.

And green is often associated for "good". So one might understand that
the green thingy says it is OK.... which is not OK.

My $.02 on usability

Hub
Received on Tue Feb 8 17:57:10 2005

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