Re: how blue must blue be for blue -on-yellow color scheme?

Il Thursday 24 January 2008 20:24:07 Oswald Buddenhagen ha scritto:
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 03:41:47PM +0000, DAVID KNIGHT wrote:
> > Last year I installed several linux boxes in the local blind centre
> > with the large yellow on blue a11y theme. The overwhelming response
> > from all users was that the contrast was poor.
>
> well, to be blunt, target group completely missed. i don't think many
> people with red-green colorblindness consider themselves blind or even
> in need of special care. in fact, many of those less impaired (which
> constitute ~80% of the ~5% affected) don't even realize they are impaired
> at all until some "key event".
>
> hmm, we must be doing something wrong - with every 20th male being
> affected, we should have at least 10 active kde devels we can ask, even
> if our group is biased towards non-affected people ...

Well, I have a friend who has some form of color blindness. I can ask for 
advice with regards with the color themes if needed.

But a "normal" theme is all he needs, I think. At most, a few colors would 
need tweaking to be sure colors differ by intensity in addition to hue.

Luciano