The issue with colour blindness is that it's not the same for everyone.
Some people can't see red, others can't see green, still others can't see
easily see blue (simplified, but close enough for this discussion).
So, we could try and include multiple colour schemes, multiple shape
schemes, or both.
For the sake of simplicity I reckon on the multiple shapes idea (or simply
changing the shapes that we currently use, but it's nice to be
given choices).
|\/|artin
-----Original Message-----
*From:* Galen Johnson [mailto:user-87f955643e3d@xymon.invalid]
*Sent:* 11 August 2008 16:11
*To:* user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
*Subject:* RE: [hobbit] "Hobbit" name legal stuff; slight name change will
happen
If you've ever been to a real NOC, you'll notice that they usually have a
large set of displays that are set up around the room for viewing problems
at a glance. I can understand where they would be viewing from a distance.
Ideally, to aid color blind folks (I work with a guy that has Macular
Degeneration and requires a special application that reverses his video) and
those that are visually impaired, the icon set should have different shapes
associated with them as well. I'd have to go look but I think Steve
Aiello's set on The Shire are this way.
=G=
*From:* Josh Luthman [mailto:user-4c45a83f15cb@xymon.invalid]
*Sent:* Monday, August 11, 2008 10:08 AM
*To:* user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
*Subject:* Re: [hobbit] "Hobbit" name legal stuff; slight name change will
happen
I'm sorry...from a distance?
It's a computer screen, not a TV.
You can make your own custom smilies anyways. Just overwrite the images.
Josh Luthman
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On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Stef Coene <user-dbffe946c0f4@xymon.invalid> wrote:
On Saturday 02 August 2008, Thomas Leavitt wrote:
My wife is a professional web/graphic designer.
I'll ask her to play around with creating another set of icons, although
Steve's should be acceptable to the PHB types.
I do have to say that no one here has grumbled at me about the name or
the iconss.
I received some remarks from some of my collegaes. 4 of them have color
blindness and it's very dificult to see the differences between the smileys
from a distance.
Stef
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