Neighbor's house alarm triggers when I put my car in reverse

Re:Neighbor's house alarm triggers when I put my car in reverse by lb1lf on Monday December 18, 2017 @01:32AM (#15949879)

My smoke detectors made a boast on the packaging they featured a fool-proof low battery indication, without going into any details.

I bought half a dozen of them to install in our new house years ago, thinking the nightly find-the-beeping-^+=¥€ games were finally a thing of the past.

When one started beeping, I did the rounds, figuring I'd be back in bed in minutes. Well, I wasn't. Turned out the fool-proof indication was to have the normally green LED flash red instead.

Did I mention that I am colour blind?

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Re:Neighbor's house alarm triggers when I put my car in reverse by michaelmior on Monday December 18, 2017 @04:14AM (#15950423)

Unfortunately as some who isn't colour blind and doesn't have any close friends who are, it's easy to forget about these concerns. I think attention to accessibility issues like this is one of the things that separates great designers from good ones.

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Re:Neighbor's house alarm triggers when I put my car in reverse by lb1lf on Monday December 18, 2017 @05:11AM (#15950632)

Oh, it isn't all bad - now I get to kick my wife out of bed to find the offender, instead.

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Re:Neighbor's house alarm triggers when I put my car in reverse by mark-r on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @11:07AM (#15961148)

The smoke detectors in my house are supposed to do that, but many times I've found one chirping and the light is nice and green.

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