Colorblind Palette?

[xpucadad]

I would like to have a color palette that makes it easier (possible?) for color blind folks to see the various details communicated via color in the plugin.

Thanks.

Ken

[jan-molak]

That's a very good point. What palette do you think would be more appropriate for the colour blind?

[xpucadad]

And that is a very good question!

The Wall Display plugin provides a colorblind palette and that might be a
good place to start. If your plugin needs more different colors than are
used in the Wall Display plugin I could ask one of my colorblind colleagues
if he has any suggestions for additional colors.

Kenneth M. Reed
[email protected]

On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Jan Molak [email protected] wrote:

That's a very good point. What palette do you think would be more
appropriate for the colour blind?

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[xpucadad]

My colleague Dick made changes to the stylesheet for the Build Monitor
plugin. His email is below. I will attach the CSS file.

Thanks,

Ken

Hi Ken,

I attached the modified CSS file. The changes are to the “successful”
colors. I used darkblue, blue and lightblue in place of darkgreen, green
and limegreen. Pretty simple really.

If the developer is interested in suggestions about the UI, I think that a
simple picker among precomposed pallets is the easiest. That’s what the
Wall Display does. A slight more powerful alternative is to pick among
pallets that are in present. So, if you insert the right set of files in
the right place you will get a new choice in the picker.

Dick

Kenneth M. Reed
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On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Kenneth Reed [email protected] wrote:

And that is a very good question!

The Wall Display plugin provides a colorblind palette and that might be a
good place to start. If your plugin needs more different colors than are
used in the Wall Display plugin I could ask one of my colorblind colleagues
if he has any suggestions for additional colors.

Kenneth M. Reed
[email protected]

On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Jan Molak [email protected]:

That's a very good point. What palette do you think would be more
appropriate for the colour blind?

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[Moosh-be]

As every colorblind can be "different"
As it's wrong to think that a colorblind is someone which cant differentiate red and green"
The best solution is to let configure a "backgound pattern" instead/in addition to let configure colors.

Ideas

• Pattern
  • dotted -> warning
  • slashed -> broken
  • stripped -> running
  • plain -> success
• image
  • let chose a background per statuts (per project ?)
  • let add a layer over the avatar ? per statuts (per project ?)
  • let add an icon ? per statuts (per project ?)

[dickschoeller]

You are absolutely right. Red-green colorblindness is not the only form. It is the most common form, the next most common variants are blue-yellow. Full colorblindness is very rare. So, a red-blue palette choice is a work around that can alleviate the issue for the majority of situations.

You are correct that having the ability to tweak other display characteristics would be more powerful. The background pattern would, I think, be particularly effective. Having a much larger difference in brightness is another approach.

I am somewhat skeptical of icons images to the display. We are monitoring 18-21 jobs per screen. Each cell of the display is already pretty full. I'm not sure where you could put an icon and still have reasonable readability.

Of course, the more you can fine tune the display to your specific environment, the more likely it is to communicate what is needed.

[jan-molak]

Hi guys,

I spent some time researching colour blindness and understand the following:

There are a number of colour blindness conditions, but the following three are the most common ones:

• protanopia: people with protanopia lack the long-wavelength sensitive retinal cones that are required to distinguish between colors in the green-yellow-red section of the spectrum.
• dueteranopia: people with dueteranopia lack medium-wavelength retinal cones and are therefore also unable to distinguish between colors in the green-yellow-red section of the spectrum.
• tritanopia: people with colour blindness involving the inactivation of the short-wavelength sensitive cone system have tritanopia, a very rare blue-yellow colour blindness.

I'm experimenting with some background patterns as per @Moosh-be's suggestion, but would greatly appreciate feedback of people suffering from colour blindness who'd like to verify the correctness of my efforts.

Below is an example Build Monitor screen running in a "colour blind mode":

According to the colour blind simulator results of applying above patterns would be seen as follows:

protanopia	deuteranopia	tritanopia

The "colour blind mode" would be a local setting, enabled on a "per-screen" basis, so that it doesn't affect any other screens displaying the same Build Monitor View:

@xpucadad, @Moosh-be, @dickschoeller, what do you think? Would this help?

[SergTanchenko]

Great idea, is it implemented?

[xpucadad]

I'm pretty sure it is, but I'm not sure what version it was first in.

Kenneth M. Reed
[email protected]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 8:47 AM, SergTanchenko [email protected]
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Great idea, is it implemented?

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[jan-molak]

@SergTanchenko yes, the feature made it into 1.4+build.102 and has been there since.
@xpucadad - looks like I forgot to mention this fact in the release notes, sorry for that!

By the way, the colour scheme and background patterns will change slightly in the next release to accommodate for "unstable builds" (#9, #88). Looking forward to hearing your feedback on the changes!

Jan

[lam2558]

Is there a way to set the default setting for font size and columns ?

[jan-molak]

@lam2558 - not yet, but that would make an awesome pull request! :) #119 suggests a way this could be implemented.

[lam2558]

Awesome!

[manurFR]

Thanks a lot for this !

[jan-molak]

@manurFR - no worries, hope it helps! I wasn't sure if this set of patterns/colours makes sense for the colour-blind so feedback is much appreciated!