Call for testing: colorblindness vs side-by-side diff

Dave S snidely.too at gmail.com
Sat Jul 21 07:47:56 UTC 2012


Adrian Buehlmann (adrian at cadifra.com) wrote:

> I (=not colorblind) tried your values: Looks good to me.
>
> (using Google Chrome and IE 9 on Windows 7).
>
> I applied:
>
> diff --git a/mercurial/templates/static/style-paper.css b/mercurial/templates/static/style-paper.css
> --- a/mercurial/templates/static/style-paper.css
> +++ b/mercurial/templates/static/style-paper.css
> @@ -293,11 +293,11 @@
>  }
>
>  .delete {
> -    background-color: #ffc5ce;
> +    background-color: #ffb5ce;
>  }
>
>  .insert {
> -    background-color: #c5ffc4;
> +    background-color: #c5ffb4;
>  }

I used Opera's "Inspect Element" to make equivalent changes, and found
them acceptable.  My vision has all 3 photoreceptor dyes, so the
original shades were also distinguishable.


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