Percentages as well as bars

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Postby TatteredShoeLace » Tue May 31, 2005 1:31 am

Why not leave both, makes 9/10 folks happy, it is just some numbers on the side. They'll grow on you. I like knowing the exact amount and the bars, so I'm happy to see them both.
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Jur Schagen
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Postby Jur Schagen » Tue May 31, 2005 8:57 am

The numbers were added to help blind people playing the game. Only problem left for them now seems to be he maps...

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Postby Surly » Tue May 31, 2005 9:37 am

How can blind people see the percentages any better than the bars? :?

Am I missing something, Jur? Are you playing around? :?
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Postby Jintroo » Tue May 31, 2005 10:04 am

I am not sure but he might mean colourblind: red and green are way too similar for them (though complement colours): light text on dark background or the other way around is much more visible for them...

Might be an explanation - if not - Jur: correct me!
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Postby Jur Schagen » Tue May 31, 2005 10:07 am

The Surly Cantrian wrote:How can blind people see the percentages any better than the bars? :?

Am I missing something, Jur? Are you playing around? :?


They apparently have some really nifty software that can read out texts to them (and thus access any text internet page)... but this has some problems reading a bar out.

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Postby Chris Johnson » Tue May 31, 2005 10:12 am

The W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
recommend that textual alternatives to any audio or visual information are made available if possible, also that one should not rely on colour alone to display information.

There are applications which translate web pages to audio, these work better when presented with textual data instead of graphical data

Also some users may prefer text-only renditions of web pages
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Postby Surly » Tue May 31, 2005 11:03 am

Well...

Good.

*nods*

Yes. :P
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Postby west » Tue May 31, 2005 3:43 pm

Do we have blind players?

I reckon the forum would be a nightmare to hear aloud, if so.
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Postby killerog » Tue May 31, 2005 5:16 pm

west wrote:Do we have blind players?

I reckon the forum would be a nightmare to hear aloud, if so.


It probably will because phpbb totally lacks any standard :wink:
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Postby kinvoya » Tue May 31, 2005 5:24 pm

Move along. Nothing to see here.
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