Good info, Mike.

Thanks!

--Bob

Mike Hord wrote:

>>>>How will you indicate success/failure to colorblind users?
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>How serious is that? I can wink it, as well....
>>>
>>>--Bob
>>>      
>>>
>>About 15% serious (assuming most of your users are male):
>>
>>http://www.designmatrix.com/pl/cyberpl/cftcb.html
>>    
>>
>
>We have this discussion every few months, it seems.
>
>For a guy like me, red/green (or even yellow/green or
>amber/green, or especially orange and red OR yellow)
>LED signalling is completely useless.  I usually ignore LEDs,
>since I can rarely suss out the meaning.  Unless they're
>blinking, of course.
>
>For my money, the ideal LED output is a blink code-
>blink three times, then off for the duration of, say, five
>blinks, then repeat.  It requires a key to interpret, moreso
>than red/green does, but if it only ever blinks in the case
>of a failure...
>
>Mike H.
>
>  
>


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