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RE: change summary screen shade from pink



About the only thing folks should take away from this is to pick their ballot colors wisely.  I have seen some pretty crazy ballots out there in the field, and have never understood why people won’t just stick with black text on white background, the default.  Mauve on teal is not attractive, folks.

 

As to Tari’s request, color cues are not for colorblind people.  Them are the breaks.  What we need to do however is implement Greg’s longstanding request to put the number voted and number to vote for on each race on the summary screen.

 

Ken

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-support@gesn.com [mailto:owner-support@gesn.com] On Behalf Of Josh Gardner
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 8:29 AM
To: support@dieboldes.com
Subject: RE: change summary screen shade from pink

 

I'm going to be pedantic here. What Greg refers to as colour blindness is exceedingly rare, and is (logically) referred to as total colour blindness.

 

Colour blind people do in fact see colours. The condition refers to an inability to distinguish between two colours. Most commonly, the two colours are red and green, and the condition occurs in varying degrees. A rarer condition is the inability to distinguish blue and purple, or yellow.

 

That's why the tests for colour blindness usually consist of looking at a field of red spots and seeing if you can see the number (composed of green spots) within the field. or blue/purple/yellow.

 

As far as I know, there's no condition where people are unable to distinguish between pink/black. or pink/white for that matter.

 

Josh.

 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-support@gesn.com [mailto:owner-support@gesn.com]On Behalf Of Greg Forsythe
Sent: July 11, 2002 04:32
To: support@dieboldes.com
Subject: RE: change summary screen shade from pink

None, hence the name.

 

They see colours as shades of gray, halftones.  The ideal is black letters on white background.  Red is seen almost as black.  The red ovals stand out nicely on the absentee ballots.  I would imagine black letters on pink shading is very difficult to see for colour blind folks.

 

Greg

 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-support@gesn.com [mailto:owner-support@gesn.com] On Behalf Of Keith Long
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 7:06 AM
To: support@dieboldes.com
Subject: RE: change summary screen shade from pink

 

Tari:  We have had that request in Maryland and Georgia.  Does anyone know what colors a color blind person can see?

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-support@gesn.com [mailto:owner-support@gesn.com]On Behalf Of Tari Runyan
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 7:09 PM
To: Support
Subject: change summary screen shade from pink

Color blind people cannot see the pink on the summary screen - needs to be a different color