Re:Building Your Color Palette
by leonmoonen on Sunday November 22, 2020 @07:02PM
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I’m totally stunned you would not even consider for a minute the ~10% of people who are colorblind (not part of that group, but always aware while creating visualizations as a scientific writer)
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To be fair, the full book, "Refactoring UI" — from which this article sourced — has a section on color accessibility. To quote from there:
> "Always use color to support something that your design is already saying; never use it as the only means of communication."
Re:Building Your Color Palette
by themacguffinman on Sunday November 22, 2020 @09:53PM
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That seems pretty out of the scope of this article. An article about accessibility can be covered separately and most accessibility articles already recommend that color isn't the only indicator, so a warning/error is still distinguishable with icons & shapes & text.
It's kind of discouraging to see insinuations that the author doesn't consider certain people because an article doesn't explore and include caveats for everything.
I am part of colorblind groups. People loves mixing green and red in scientific plots in papers I read. It's effing irritating. 10% is not such a small number, we are many more than IE users.