Colour Blind Posters, CVD suffers

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mathepac

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I note that for live and televisiual viewers of sports events, certain teams, including Ireland Rugby, have recently opted to wear different coloured kit to avoid confusion. Ireland Rugby wear white shirts with dark togs if their normal kit might be confused with the opposition's.

When we post links using the link tool, could the display text have something like bold & italic or bold & underline automatically applied to make the link stand out from regular, non-linked, text? Maybe use a different type face from the armoury as well. Apparently about 6% of the population is afflicted with the various kinds of colour blindness. I am not an expert.
 
mathepac said:
Apparently about 6% of the population is afflicted with the various kinds of colour blindness.
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Another option for them might be to install a browser plugin to locally apply appropriate style/colourisation to links (and other content?) for ease of visibility?
 
There are extensions for software developers to assist colour-blind users as there are extensions and plugins for some browsers to help users with the condition, but I've been unable to find a "universal solution".

I thought maybe the mods could innovate and be first.
 
Brendan Burgess said:
In the vast majority of cases, links are unfurled or in the format www.ferga.com so it's clear that they are links
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There are no links in here created by the link tool that display like they do in that site you linked to.

That site uses exactly what I proposed in a couple of links - they use bolded, colourised, capitalised and underlined text for their "here" link, and they use colourised and underlined text for their "contact us" link. They stand out nicely from non-linking text, reinforcing my contention that merely colourising text may not be sufficiently helpful for CVD sufferers.

Thanks.
 
mathepac said:
They stand out nicely from non-linking text, reinforcing my contention that merely colourising text may not be sufficiently helpful for CVD sufferers.
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I am sure that you are right but there are so few of these links posted on askaboutmoney that I am not going to mess with the system and find it causes some other problems.
 
ClubMan said:
Another option for them might be to install a browser plugin to locally apply appropriate style/colourisation to links (and other content?) for ease of visibility?
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Ideally systems should be designed for accessibility without putting an extra burden on affected users.

It's common to see graphs and maps using very similar colours when they could easily choose contrasting ones that would work for everyone.
 
You've no information about what browser(s) or even what OS you use. Your browser, depending on which one you use, can let you personalise for dark mode. Depending on which OS you use, you can set dark mode for all applications at the level of the OS.
 
I am sure many users would benefit, as some may not how to use the workarounds offered. Many sites offer a dark mode feature at source. I'm thinking something like https://pixelexit.com/products/edge.30/ would be compatible with this site, ... in fact I see that Xenforo itself has a dark mode forum (https://xenforo.com/community/).
 
A native dark mode option would be useful. I don't necessarily want dark mode enabled for every website, and browser extensions are blocked by many organisations.
 
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