- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 12:08:56 -0500 (EST)
- To: Jan Richards <jan.richards@utoronto.ca>
- cc: <w3c-wai-au@w3.org>
Hi. I end up still voting for mine. The objections I have to these are as follows: The colours should be higher contrast - I actually couldn't really tell what the backgrounds were. If they get reduced they rapidly become indistiguishable. I am about to add these to the icons table http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/sources/techimages/icons/ - give me 10 minutes... cheers Charles On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Jan Richards wrote: Hi, I have put together another set of icons (attached) that I hope will provide a compromise. - The designs are based primarily on Charles's. - They are 16x16 (if we want extra spacing, let's just put it in the markup instead of relying on the icons to create space between the lines) - Each has a different background color which should help when scanning a long list of techniques (I don't care which colour goes with which icon). - However, the icons do not rely on this color - they each have a unique shape as well. --- Cheers, Jan Charles McCathieNevile wrote: > > Hmmm. I think that having them renderable with a height of 16 pixels means > they will work nicely at a common font size of between 8 and 15 points > without disturbing the layout. > > I don't care about the width much, although anything bigger than 2 and a half > times the height would look funny I suspect (I am not going to measure the > WAI icons, but I think they are no more than that). > > I actually find it much easier to read when the text is somewhat more > spaced, so personally prefer the larger size. Therefore I vote for larger > icons that can be still be easily distinguished at 16x16 > > Looking at the icons page in double size and half size was interesting for me > to think about it. Different browsers do this very differently, too. > > cheers > > Charles > > On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Jan Richards wrote: > > Before we start mixing and matching icons of different styles, let's at > least decide how large they should be displayed. > > I vote for 16 x 16 to lessen the likelihood that the icons will change > the line spacing. > > -- > Charles McCathieNevile http://www.w3.org/People/Charles phone: +61 409 134 136 > W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI fax: +1 617 258 5999 > Location: 21 Mitchell street FOOTSCRAY Vic 3011, Australia > (or W3C INRIA, Route des Lucioles, BP 93, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France) /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Jan Richards UI Design Specialist Adaptive Technology Resource Centre (ATRC) University of Toronto jan.richards@utoronto.ca Phone: (416) 946-7060 Fax: (416) 971-2896 /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ -- Charles McCathieNevile http://www.w3.org/People/Charles phone: +61 409 134 136 W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI fax: +1 617 258 5999 Location: 21 Mitchell street FOOTSCRAY Vic 3011, Australia (or W3C INRIA, Route des Lucioles, BP 93, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France)
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