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You have my sympathy on the color issue. |
Originally Posted by chiba_EU
Is there any chance of using different colours to denote server status? I'm colourblind and cannot tell red from green in small amounts (i assume that these colours are used currently :P). Whats wrong with black and white, and maybe yellow for unknown. Surely someone doesn't have to slave their giblets off for hours on end to switch them. please.
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The only problem I see wrong with black and white is that while it may make it easier for you to see them how will other people know what they mean?
People that aren't colourblind have grown up knowing that green means safe/go, Yellow means caution, and Red is a warning. They don't need to be told what they mean.
I'd much rather see them drop the colours/dots and replace them with words like
Light load
Medium Load
Heavy Load
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Well, not to be mean about it, but you can count, right? |
Originally Posted by chiba_EU
Is there any chance of using different colours to denote server status? I'm colourblind and cannot tell red from green in small amounts (i assume that these colours are used currently :P). Whats wrong with black and white, and maybe yellow for unknown. Surely someone doesn't have to slave their giblets off for hours on end to switch them. please.
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One dot is light load, two dots is medium load, and 3 dots is heavy load.
The colors do not vary, 1 is always green, 2 is always yellow, 3 is always red.
You may not have been aware of this, and had been assuming there were different shades used. The number of dots visible is just as accurate an indicator as the color, so it doesn't really matter much what color it is.
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Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison See, it's gems like these that make me check Claws' post history every once in a while to make sure I haven't missed anything good lately. |
Yeeeeeesssss... I think Chiba means on this page: http://eu.cityofheroes.com/en/news/server_status which could be replaced with a Up, Down and Unknown word for colour blind people.
Not the list inside the game launcher.
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As opposed to this page: http://www.cityofheroes.com/news/ser...er_status.html which not only has words instead of colours but also has a nice XML feed for you to pull the status info from.
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Originally Posted by chiba_EU
Is there any chance of using different colours to denote server status? I'm colourblind and cannot tell red from green in small amounts (i assume that these colours are used currently :P). Whats wrong with black and white, and maybe yellow for unknown. Surely someone doesn't have to slave their giblets off for hours on end to switch them. please.
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They didn't use the HTML <img> "alt" and "title" attributes which were made for this exact reason.
<img src="/images/assets/shared/server-UP.png" alt="Server up!" title="Server up!" width="20" height="20" />
[/COLOR]<img src="/images/assets/shared/server-UNKNOWN.png" alt="Server status unknown." title="Server status unknown." width="20" height="20" />
All that would be needed to be added is the bolded/orange text.
Unlike the global name collisions for the upcoming global server list merge, this IS an accessibility issue.
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To be honest, it doesn't matter what colour they are, they're always green (except for Test) since it doesn't actually work for the EU servers.
Maybe when the lists merge it'll be important what colour the blobs are. 
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Not really. As Claws pointed out it's the number of dots that matter.
1 = light load
2 = medium load
3 = heavy load
the color really isn't relevant except on the rare occasions when a server is greyed out.
My assumption was that this meant the server status web page, which doesn't work.
The server selection box, which has the load level, is different and doesn't really need the colours, no.
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Ah, well the NA webpage uses words not colors.|
Originally Posted by Ravenswing
My assumption was that this meant the server status web page, which doesn't work.
The server selection box, which has the load level, is different and doesn't really need the colours, no. |
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Originally Posted by chiba_EU
Is there any chance of using different colours to denote server status? I'm colourblind and cannot tell red from green in small amounts (i assume that these colours are used currently :P). Whats wrong with black and white, and maybe yellow for unknown. Surely someone doesn't have to slave their giblets off for hours on end to switch them. please.
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Originally Posted by Blue Rabbit
Yeeeeeesssss... I think Chiba means on this page: http://eu.cityofheroes.com/en/news/server_status which could be replaced with a Up, Down and Unknown word for colour blind people.
Not the list inside the game launcher. |
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Originally Posted by The_Spad_EU
As opposed to this page: http://www.cityofheroes.com/news/ser...er_status.html which not only has words instead of colours but also has a nice XML feed for you to pull the status info from.
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Code:
// ==UserScript==
// @name EU Server Status
// @namespace http://eu.cityofheroes.com
// @include http://eu.cityofheroes.com/en/news/server_status
// ==/UserScript==
var allImages = document.getElementsByTagName('img');
var tmpstr = "";
for (i=0;i<allImages.length;i++) {
if (allImages[i].alt == '') {
//alert('missing alt text');
tmpstr = allImages[i].src.substring(55,(allImages[i].src.length-4));
if (tmpstr == 'UP'){
allImages[i].alt = 'Server is up.';
allImages[i].title = 'Server is up.';
}
if (tmpstr == 'DOWN'){
allImages[i].alt = 'Server is down.';
allImages[i].title = 'Server is down.';
}
if (tmpstr == 'UNKNOWN'){
allImages[i].alt = 'Server status unknown.';
allImages[i].title = 'Server status unknown.';
}
}
}
I'll say that during the testing of my script that Zukunft changed between "Up" and "Unknown" randomly.
Edit:
Apparently works for Google Chrome, Opera, Safari using Greasekit, and other browsers that allow userscripts (IE needs a plugin).
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That's the only server status page I've ever seen. I assumed they were the same for both NA and EU servers. |
Originally Posted by The_Spad_EU
As opposed to this page: http://www.cityofheroes.com/news/ser...er_status.html which not only has words instead of colours but also has a nice XML feed for you to pull the status info from.
Damn Americans always get the best stuff |
They should be the same for both, and I imagine they probably will be after the server list merge.
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Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison See, it's gems like these that make me check Claws' post history every once in a while to make sure I haven't missed anything good lately. |
Is there any chance of using different colours to denote server status? I'm colourblind and cannot tell red from green in small amounts (i assume that these colours are used currently :P). Whats wrong with black and white, and maybe yellow for unknown. Surely someone doesn't have to slave their giblets off for hours on end to switch them. please.