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"private" icon is a red square. public is green circle. I'm red-green color blind and cannot distinguish these colors two colors when the saturation is as low as it is in Eclipse. The green in this case is only 30% saturation, while the red is around 60%.
Created attachment 16942 [details] easier to see versions The attached image shows original versions on left, and versions on the right which are easier to distinguish.
Andree, can the design team please comment on this.
Created attachment 16947 [details] Comparison of original V6.0 icons to newly modified icons Thanks for your comment and the attachment illustrating your comment. Shape is used as the primary method of distinction. Color is a secondary attribute used to aid in distinction (a square, a circle, a diamond and a triangle). Using color as a primary mode of distinction is avoided due to accessibility concerns. See the attachment where I've changed the original and the modified icons to greyscale and we see that there is very little variation in the value of the two sets. The shape of the object is used to distinguish between the circle and the square. Thanks, Janet
I don't understand your comments. I am the target audience for why color alone should not be used. I'm color-blind, but it doesn't mean I see in black and white. I can see the difference between red and green, but there is no reason to use faded green and faded red in eclipse when more saturated versions are easier to see, especially for colorblind users like myself. Use of shapes here isn't perfect. These icons are often decorated with triangles, squares with X's in them, the letter "S" and "F" and other things I'm probably forgetting. The combination of shape and color would be the strongest visual indicator.
Created attachment 19170 [details] Colour blind testing The concern I have with modifying the green circle to the color you're suggesting is that it is far off of the color palette that we've established for the eclipse-based tool last year. The green is a very 'bright' green. As a result the green is much more dominant than the red color, and not harmonious with the overall color scheme, to folks without colour blindness. Also I realize, based on the number of overlays often used in JDT that shape as a distinctor may not always be useful. Based on testing that I've done with the original and the versions you've created... I agree that there is a problem for people with deuteranopia, who are relying on the color to distinguish the icons. To resolve these two issues, I've created a version that is somewhere between the color you've suggested for the green circle (public) and between the original color in the V6.0 icon (see mod.2)
I like the middle version better than the original version ;)
Photoshop is not colorblind, and according to the eyedropper, the "green-ness" is the same as the "red-ness" for the proposed icons. I've made the saturation the same. Regardless, it's a weak argument to say that anything more than 30% saturated is "very bright green".
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