Re: WHat makes Icons accessible or not?

Jan,
  
   The problem with the small icons is that on my screen, 600x800
resolution, the small ones are too small to tell what they are. I really
couldn't compare them well. On a higher resolution, they will turn into
pinheads. 

	Yes, the larger  icons will move the line over, not much for a single
icon, but perhaps more on a line where all four icons are displayed. At
32x32 it won't occupy more than half the line yet, so I don't think visual
readability will be impacted, but I could be wrong.

				Anne 


At 10:01 AM 5/1/01 -0400, Jan Richards wrote:
>I should probaly say, up front, that I submitted the third set of icons.
>
>Now, before we get too deeply into this, we need to decide a few of
>things:
>
>1. How big will the icons be?  While 32 x 32 is nice, these larger icons
>will expand the line spacing and may end up doubling an already long
>document. Can 16x16 versions of the first two icons be produced to get a
>better comparison?
>
>2. How much detail? The flow chart is good in 32 x 32 but loses
>something in the 16x16 version.
>
>3. Which colours? If we decide on colours for each category that are
>easy to see and distinguish, then all the icons can use the same colours
>and we can eliminate that as a variable.
>
>
>I think we need icons that can be identified at a glance by their shape
>(as Katy says) and colour, without messing up the page layout. These are
>afterall, not the most important pieces of information on the page.
>
>
>-- 
>Cheers,
>Jan
>
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Received on Tuesday, 1 May 2001 17:29:24 UTC