Re: Test suite submissions

On Wednesday, March 12, 2003, 10:36:50 PM, John wrote:


JL> Rijk wrote on Wednesday, March 12, 2003 at 3:26:59 PM:

>> Ian wrote:

>>> In practice, in my six years of writing CSS tests, I cannot recall
>>> receiving a single complaint from anyone who was blocked from using
>>> CSS tests because of red/green colour blindness.

>> I do have problems with 'maroon', which is used in some tests. I can
>> hardly distinguish between maroon and black text color on a white
>> background. Red text on a white background is better, but still not
>> very easy. Distinguishing background colors, however, is no problem
>> for me. And if a test says 'this text should be green text', I can
>> see easily enough whether it is green or 'some other color, most
>> likely black'.

JL> I suspect the definitions of red and green were chosen carefully; red
JL> is #ff0000 and green is #008000. There is a significant difference
JL> between the two even if the colors appear identical (the difference
JL> between #808080 and #404040 or something like that).

That depends on which sort of red-green color blindness you have.

JL>  This distinction
JL> is much easier to make with a background color than with a text or
JL> thin border color--maybe the test writers should be encouraged to use
JL> background colors wherever possible.

I agree that large areas of color are easier to distinguish.


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 Chris                            mailto:chris@w3.org

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