This week there’s a lot of news on the accessibility front in particular! Beyond that, we have a fairly juicy assortment of other new features and user interface improvements, so have a look:…
Good to know. I will say as a colorblind person, it’s always a tad ironic because as a colorblind person, the filters don’t make things definitive. It’s still a bunch of random colors that I can’t identify lol
Great question. Had to think about it and I’d say for me personally, poor implementation of color pickers is the biggest frustration.
As a technical user, I have no qualms w/ editing the default selection if it’s hard to read due to colors, but I get frustrated with poor color picker implementation. For example, color swaths that don’t have named descriptions when you hover over there (yes even the ‘easy’ colors on the first page of a color picker like ROYGBIV).
Another less straightforward issue is something like KDE’s Konsole has a color picker that doesn’t have clear names/examples where colors are represented, so when I wanted to change the bash custom prompt color, I had to edit 5-6 different options and through trial and error get to the correct option. Here, if it were possible to better name the options, it’d go a long way towards me better customizing my terminal
Good to know. I will say as a colorblind person, it’s always a tad ironic because as a colorblind person, the filters don’t make things definitive. It’s still a bunch of random colors that I can’t identify lol
What are your biggest pet peeves as a color blind person? In software, I mean.
Not colorblind, but my guess would be the colors.
This made me chortle
Partially red green colorblind here. There’s really no pet peeves, but sometimes if I must identify the color/color accent, it takes focus.
Those global overlay filters that tint the whole screen never seem to do anything for me at all.
On the other hand, the ones that change specific colours (enemy tags are blue instead of green, for example) are a huge help.
Great question. Had to think about it and I’d say for me personally, poor implementation of color pickers is the biggest frustration.
As a technical user, I have no qualms w/ editing the default selection if it’s hard to read due to colors, but I get frustrated with poor color picker implementation. For example, color swaths that don’t have named descriptions when you hover over there (yes even the ‘easy’ colors on the first page of a color picker like ROYGBIV).
Another less straightforward issue is something like KDE’s Konsole has a color picker that doesn’t have clear names/examples where colors are represented, so when I wanted to change the bash custom prompt color, I had to edit 5-6 different options and through trial and error get to the correct option. Here, if it were possible to better name the options, it’d go a long way towards me better customizing my terminal