Thursday, September 24, 2009

What would you tell 6% of all men?

It started as an email discussion at work. We've encountered a user who has red-green colorblindness. Some of the colors associated with links in our website aren't distinguishable to him.

M: User L is color-blind, red-green (which occurs in 6% of males). L cannot distinguish between the "visited" state of links and regular text. The purple visited link is gray for him. While looking at a page with a bunch of visited links, he wasn't even aware they were links. Should we do something to indicate the visited state more clearly?

C: It seems that the default for all PCs and all browsers, unless you customize, is blue for unvisited and purple for visited. Why doesn't L just customize his browser?

M: I know about the default blue and purple. (...) And what, are we going to tell 6% of all men to "customize your browser, dude"? :D

S: Listen, if I could tell 6% of all men something, it surely wouldn't be that! :^)

So if you could tell 6% of all men something, what would it be? (Keep it clean, please!)

3 comments:

sflorio said...

I would tell them not to wear their baseball caps in restaurants. They look like stupid frat boys.

Grannymar said...

Sorry, all I can think of is 'Put down the seat'!

stwidgie said...

@sflorio - thanks for nudging me to approve the comments! BTW, I just saw a baseball cap with two LED lights you can turn on in the brim (so you can see your way back to the frat house in the dark, perhaps)

@Grannymar - That is the very first thing that came to my mind, too! :^D