Re: SV: Color coding

Hi everybody,

first of all thanks a lot for all the input and ideas. Wat about doing 
the following:
If it is an external link I color code it and in addition I insert a 
dialogue box that when somebody selects an external link the dialogue 
box will appear and say e.g. the following:

This link will open in a new window (external website).
Continue? yes / no

Would that be an acceptable solution?

Kind regards

     Ginger


Ramón Corominas wrote:
> Hello, Gregg.
>
> For me (user with low vision due to retinitis pigmentosa), most of 
> these small icons are almost "invisible" or noticeable. Most of the 
> "new window" icons I've seen are so small that it's impossible to 
> distinguish them near the link text. Most of them have also bad 
> contrast, and many of them completely dissapear when you switch to 
> high contrast settings, because they are designed thinking in a white 
> background. Additionally, some of them are confusing and do not 
> represent very well the fact that they will open a new window. Only my 
> previous experience on this type of behaviour will do the trick and 
> alert me that this is a "new window icon", but not the icon itself.
>
> And if you use more than one type of icon (one for new windows, 
> another one for word, another one for PDF, another to print the page, 
> provide a sound version, e-mail the article, etc.), then I will not be 
> able to easily distinguish between all of them and will miss important 
> information.
>
> Of course, colour coding is not enough, and small icons are better, 
> but "icon only" solutions (at least as they are now) are not perfect.
>
> Gregg wrote:
>> If you used a small visible icon to mark external links, and put alt 
>> text on them - then everyone, sighted or not, using a screen reader 
>> or not, colorblind or not, would know that these links are external.  
>> It would also be more obvious to people than color coding where 
>> people might not make the connection or notice the difference in 
>> color even if not colorblind.   . 
>
>

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