Re: [Evolution-hackers] note on colorized calendars

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo ximian com>]

On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 14:57, Luis Villa wrote:
> I was perusing rodrigo's blog a bit, and noticed the design choice to
> use colorized calendars to do the overlaying. I'd talk to the a11y guys
> to be certain, but that's likely to be an a11y nightmare- they strongly
> urge against solely using color to distinguish things, since if you are
> color-blind, blind, or otherwise incapable of distinguishing color
> things get very messy. 
> 
> Anyway, just a thought- we /are/ seeking to keep gnome core
> 'accessibilizable' if not actually accessible, and this may be a problem
> in that area.
> 
well, then I guess we can use an extra thing to distinguish this in
accessibility-enabled installations. I can't think of a better way (in
the non-accessible case) to differentiate the events, since icons are
already being used for categories.

cheers