- From: Dave J Woolley <david.woolley@bts.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 20:05:03 +0100
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> From: Paul Davis [SMTP:paul@ten-20.com] > > i.e. dirty orange, off pink, yellow with a touch of black. Also delicate > variations of pastel shades are cropping up all over the place. A low > [DJW:] My favourite example of this is the FAQ tab on http://www.bt.com/surftime/ (you don't need to accept the Javascript or Flash for this, and the Flash has no information content). I think my colour vision is reasonable, and still had to turn off colours in the Accessibility options. (Each tab has a lower and lower contrast.) An interesting observation, though, is that whilst BT use colours in their printed material, they manage to keep it quite readable. I think the difference is that the printed material is done by experienced designers, who know that you need to be subtle in designs and use a minimum of constructs, but the web stuff looks like it is done by twenty-somethings, with no prior experience, who like to try every gimmick. I think also, that with established companies, the senior management understands print technology, but not web technology, so leaves it to the people who claim to know. This last point will be a problem for the person who suggested marketing accessibility to the decision makers. Those decision makers amy know lots of disabled people, but they may not have any idea about web technology, and can only compare their site with all the others. (Start ups in this area are often all twenty somethings, and probably haver limited experience of disability.) One final point is that the same companies who do this often have people who really know about users interfaces; for example, BT Research have a good set of pages on designing web sites for colour blindness. -- --------------------------- DISCLAIMER --------------------------------- Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of BTS.
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