Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 14th Sep 2006 20:57 UTC
"The color blindness is the inability to perceive differences between some or all colors that other people can distinguish. According to the medical studies, eight to ten percent of male population suffers from some kind of color blindness (figure for female population is much lower). What does it mean to the average Swing developer? Well, if you rely too much on color differences, you may be not conveying the information as well as you thought. Now you can run your application in debug UI mode and have a live preview of your UI as viewed by the color-blind population."
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2006-09-15
As soemone who is totally color blind,
I'm pleased to see this topic being raised.
In my case, I need a High-contrast color scheme with
a dark background. White on black works best for me.
I find it extremely frustrating when I have to deal with
an application that has a poorly designed UI.
Even those applications that provide a means to customize the UI
can be quite frustrating since they often
assume that you will be using the UI to customize the UI.
Developers need to provide a documented way to configure the UI without depending on the UI.
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