I just got a message by a friend of mine who is colourblind. He complained
that it is a little bit difficult to see whether a specific element in the
blockable elements list is blocked.
The only hint for him is the size of the little button at the end of each line.
He suggested to use different shapes for blocked/not blocked. Maybe
change the "blocked" button to a cross or something similar?
If it's possible to change colour, is it possible to change style as well? strikeout or underline for blocked content for example.
Also may be it is possible to change the colour to something that's easier to read for colourblinds?
I found on google a photoshop plugin that helps us to see what they see. http://www.vischeck.com/
Crossing it out won't make it easy to read for people whose mother tongue is not English, since they read letters not words or shapes. Although reading url was never easy for them anyway...
How about the font? Colour blinds (and designers should be more sensitive to font I guess?
sheepy wrote:Crossing it out won't make it easy to read for people whose mother tongue is not English, since they read letters not words or shapes.
I think crossing something out is in use pretty everywhere in the world.
I didn't mean for something to symbolise the word "crossing", but a
cross to symbolise something being crossed out. I don't think this would
be a language problem.
Just bumping this topic back up - abovementioned friend asked me
if there are improvements planned, And I had to admit I don't know.
I believe we just all forgot about it
Wladimir: Maybe I should create a bug about it as a reminder?
Wladimir Palant wrote:Creating an icon would help more
Working on it
Lousy little mockup:
I already quite like the circle, the cross however obviously needs some refining.
I always find creating good icons with a mere double digit pixel count very tricky.