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[Patrick McFarland]

On Saturday 06 May 2006 09:50, RaaR wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-05-06 at 09:07 -0400, Lukas Sabota wrote:
> > > In my opinion this also is valid for disabled people.
> > >
> > > Disabled people are punished enough with their problems, why would
> > > someone add an extra punishment and lock them out of the full
> > > experience of FOSS?
> >
> > I don't mean to be ignorant, but could you explain to me how the
> > experience would change if the boot up messages are in color? Can a
> > colorblind person read colored messages?

> Colourblind people can read the coloured messages.  The only precaucion
> I suggest is that the messages are either light on a dark background or
> dark on a light background.  Avoid stuff like dark red on dark green or
> dark blue over dark purple since that would give people with problems
> telling those colours apart a lot of trouble.

I'd also like to confirm that. Totally colorblind people just see stuff in 
greyscale (ie, no chroma), so light on dark, and dark on light they can see. 

And avoid similar brightness red and green (and other common partial 
colorblind combinations), because it will just look like a sea of same 
colored brown... or whatever they actually see.

-- 
Patrick McFarland || www.AdAstraPerAspera.com
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids,
we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and
listening to repetitive electronic music." -- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo,
Inc, 1989