Re: Phone Detection Status display

I appreciate your concern for the 5% of the population that is color-blind
and for your advocacy of literacy.

Ira Brickman

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Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 8:36 a
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Subject: Re: [BitPim-devel] Phone Detection Status display

On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 07:51:58AM -0400, Ira Brickman wrote:
> I'm just an end user, with some experience creating GUI's, and I'm form
> America (judging from how "colour" is spelled in the two comments, I jusge
> you both are not.)
> 
> >From my perspective, color adds instant recognition to some situations.
As
> such I liked the "tell-tale", easily found and viewed, colorations of red
> and green.
> 
> I understand you don't agree, but visually appealing, easily found,
graphic
> indicators are always of preference over words in a modern world filled
with
> a plethora visual symbols (let alone a lifetime of ads, television and
> movies.)
> 
 
Unless the user is colorblind.  Good graphic design shouldn't rely on
color alone to express information and words are much less ambiguous than
symbols.

-- 
Stuart Freeman