fwonce Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 (edited) Hi, I'm a Alfred Powerpack user, so I almost have all kinds of usage displayed in Alfred's stat panel. The thing is, I have red/green colorblindness, and some of them are quite hard for me to recognize, especially 'Clipboard', 'Action' and 'Hotkeys'. Maybe you can add a tiny feature on this panel that let me see corresponding part in the chart glow when I hover the mouse on some legend at the top, if it's not too bothersome to implement. Edited June 20, 2016 by fwonce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dfay Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 a useful resource appeared today: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/06/improving-ux-for-color-blind-users/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanishe Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 Personally, I think this is an issue for the authorities. They should either give all colourblind people those EnChroma corrective glasses or give the rest of us these T-shirts: Speaking as someone with exceptional eyesight who's constantly persecuted for being left-handed, I say "screw those guys." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fwonce Posted June 24, 2016 Author Share Posted June 24, 2016 Hah! The left-handed have nothing to be persecuted, just like the color-blinded, right?. Anyway, impressed by your *sick* joke, which makes me not so obsessive about whether this issue be tackled. It's no big deal. Thanks. Personally, I think this is an issue for the authorities. They should either give all colourblind people those EnChroma corrective glasses or give the rest of us these T-shirts: Speaking as someone with exceptional eyesight who's constantly persecuted for being left-handed, I say "screw those guys." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanishe Posted June 24, 2016 Share Posted June 24, 2016 Hah! The left-handed have nothing to be persecuted, just like the color-blinded, right?. Anyway, impressed by your *sick* joke, which makes me not so obsessive about whether this issue be tackled. It's no big deal. Thanks. Sorry. Didn't mean to offend. Do you know a good palette to use for things like graphs to avoid issues for colour blind people? If you know any good links or could explain the issue, it would make a good sticky post in the themes forum. It is definitely one of those things most people don't give much thought to when picking colours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fwonce Posted June 25, 2016 Author Share Posted June 25, 2016 Sorry. Didn't mean to offend. Do you know a good palette to use for things like graphs to avoid issues for colour blind people? If you know any good links or could explain the issue, it would make a good sticky post in the themes forum. It is definitely one of those things most people don't give much thought to when picking colours. Just like what you said, I also believe a more contrasty color scheme will do. But it's funny I cannot imagine how that looks like as a color dumber, that's why I proposed a sort-of-overdesigned approach. I used to refer to this site (http://paletton.com/) to find a palette comfortable to me. Haven't upgraded to Alfred 3, but in Alfred 2 the preference panel can't be changed by theme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanishe Posted June 25, 2016 Share Posted June 25, 2016 (edited) Thanks for the link. Looks really useful. Themes don't affect the stats panel in Alfred 3, either, as far as I can tell. What I was thinking was that some information on choosing colours that are colourblind friendly would be useful to theme authors when choosing which colours to use in their themes. Edited June 25, 2016 by deanishe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vero Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 Just like what you said, I also believe a more contrasty color scheme will do. But it's funny I cannot imagine how that looks like as a color dumber, that's why I proposed a sort-of-overdesigned approach. I used to refer to this site (http://paletton.com/) to find a palette comfortable to me. Haven't upgraded to Alfred 3, but in Alfred 2 the preference panel can't be changed by theme. Thanks for this thread; Interesting topic and something we'll take in consideration for a future update. In the meantime, if you create Alfred themes that are colourblind-friendly, please do let me know as I'd love to share these with other users Cheers, Vero Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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