Re: Graphics contrast

Thanks Erich, that’s really useful.



Regarding a couple of them (the disagreements obviously!):

“6. Would say FAIL - I would need the mouse-over aspects to supplement perception, if we're ignoring mouse-over, color distinctions are difficult”

http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/




Were the state labels (WA, OR etc.) not enough to understand it?



I.e. Do the state lines need to be contrasting?





“13. Would say FAIL - unable to locate the labels A, B and C (are they in the graphic itself?)”

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA20746




The labels are terrible, I’m not surprised the red text on green background isn’t visible!



However, I thought that the graph itself was understandable without the labels, could you see where the bright green parts were on the time-scale of the X axis? (Showing them clustered around the summer months.)



Thinking about it, that one would fail for text on a background anyway, I’ll update it.





“Also, did we do away with using the COGA definition of "Important Information", or modified?”



I’ve left it as-is for the moment, I think it covers what we need. I re-quoted it at the top of the page, and it is still on the wiki page.



Cheers,



-Alastair