It's time to help the colorblind.
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Posted on: 2009-09-16 07:31 in Suggestions and Ideas
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Honestly, I'd like to see an entirely-new color-choosing chart that would allow us to work with a color wheel, choosing not only level of greyscale, but either the exact color that's put up on the wheel, or to be able to type the HTML code into it to derive the chosen color.
Get well soon, by the way! That works with color blind people, doesn't it?
I don't know how easy it'd be, how it'd look or how it would work within the system, but we've had a few complaints from colorblind folks about other UI items as well - I'd love to see some way to help out (especially with the changing palettes in the power customization options.)
It should, at the least, be looked into.
Where's that color chart, Bill? Someone has it around.
What we need now is a chart with descriptive terms for the custom areas, definitely. the first thing I wondered about was what would happen with the colorblind folks 
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Nothing for the PC palettes, though
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I hope someone has the skills and knowledge to make a Power Customization Chart for the colorblind. I'm not colorblind myself, but even the changes to the Patrol XP color made it easier for me to see.
I never knew those color names myself. I always called them Pale Red, Pale-ER Red and Bland Red, rather than *looks at chart* Fire Brick, Indian Red and Dusty Rose.
Yeah, I can't help make a chart, this'll be up to someone else.
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Wow, I really didn't think of this sort of thing when Power Customization came out.
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Well, I ain't color blind, but I think it'd be nice to have the hex color pop up for me.
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Well, I ain't color blind, but I think it'd be nice to have the hex color pop up for me.
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That way there won't be an irritating window appearing over the colors themselves.
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I'm not getting much out of Power Customization, sad to say. I'm red/green colorblind, so I effectively see only two colors: Brownish and Blue. It's okay. I'm in good company -- up to 11% (1 out of every 9) males have the exact same problem.
That doesn't mean that I don't want my characters to look good, though. I've taken screenshots of the costume and skin color screens, put them into Adobe Photoshop and memorized the hue and saturation values of the color chart. It's not difficult -- the costume colors are arranged so that each hue has its own row, with increasing brightness until the last three columns, where the saturation starts to drop. Easy to work with.
The power customization colors, are not so easy. They switch hues within each row, with various brightness schemes, and the saturation values appear to be placed at random. In short, power customization is almost impossible to navigate for the colorblind. I think the time has come for a GUI color aid.
I suggest small popup boxes that would appear whenever the mouse cursor hovers over one of the color dots in any of the color screens. The popup might contain nothing more than a HTML color code ("#4444FF") for that color, or it might display a color name ("Pale Blue 1"). Give people the ability to disable the color popups in their option menus...set the default to off, if you like. But the colorblind will use it, and they will *rejoice*.
Please. It's time.
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