[thelist] Origin of Winer Quote?
Ben Dyer
ben_dyer at imaginuity.com
Tue May 8 09:23:17 CDT 2001
At 07:14 AM 5/8/2001, you wrote:
>Wayyyyyy back in '99. Dan has a screenshot I believe.
>
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><tip inspiredBy="Ben Dyer">
>It's easy to forget about accessibility concerns. Don't.
>http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WAI-WEBCONTENT-19990505/
></tip>
Wow, I'm touched. <sniffle> :)
<tip type="Accessibility">
The biggest mistake most sites make in accessibility (and the one that can
be the easiest or the hardest to fix based on how you designed your site)
is to be reliant on color in your design. This is especially true in
forms. On required fields in error checking, don't exclusively rely on the
color red to indicate mistakes and don't exclusively rely on other colors
to indicate which fields are required in the first place.
Quick example: we had a client who wanted a real garish shade of yellow and
on their forms, they wanted to mark required fields as blue, with no other
distinguishing marks. To show that this was a bad idea, I did a screen
capture, brought it into Photoshop and desaturated the page. The text was
gone. It was quite dramatic showing this to a client. And, yes, I realize
this doesn't accurately represent all, or even most, color blindness, but
it was done to prove a point. Be very, very careful when selecting your
colors.
</tip>
--Ben
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