Re: [Evolution-hackers] note on colorized calendars

[Kevin Cullis <kevincu orci com>]

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Kevin

On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 08:50, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> 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
> 
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