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From: Jason R. <jas...@gm...> - 2014-12-23 18:57:44
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On 23/12/14 at 10:25am, Hannes Schüller wrote: >So, to follow up on the brief IRC discussion: I believe there are two >questions to be asked here: > >1. What should the default styling of the hints be? >2. How to allow the users to change them? > >We've got the second one covered in the discussion so far, and I also >like Daniel's latest suggestion. > >As for the first one, I obviously took those default colours from >Vimperator back in the day. They are optimised for discoverability, I'd >say, i.e. if you're not quite sure what the linked elements even are, >you're sure to spot them all when activating hinting mode, because they >will jump right in your face. > >They are not pretty and some people apparently don't find them very >readable (this is very subjective and hard to measure). I'm open to >change the defaults, but I have some basic requirements: > >- Discoverability still needs to be there. Not necessarily as striking > as it is now, of course, but something too subtle is also not good. >- The contrast should be sufficient for visually impaired users (again, > subjective; I believe there are automated test suites for this, > though). > >Yes, my own system is completely grey on grey as well. I even like low >contrast! That, however, doesn't necessarily make it a sensible default >for the general public. > The current defaults (red on yellow) may pose accessibility issues for people with colourblindness[0], a better combination would be black on yellow (the international traffic standard). This is high contrast enough, and also similarly garish to prompt those who don't require such lurid colours to change them quickly… As to 2), there are three vars that the user should be able to modify: hint_foreground, hint_background and hint_size. How that is actually implemented I'll leave to the technically competent. 0. http://colorvisiontesting.com/color2.htm Cheers, /J -- http://jasonwryan.com/ [GnuPG Key: B1BD4E40] |
