1172674 - status.mozilla.org colors for normal and disrupted services are indistinguishable

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Infrastructure & Operations :: MOC: Service Requests, task)

Description

[Kris Maglione [:kmag]]

At least for people with the most common forms of red-green colorblindness.

Ideally, the indicators should use different shapes as well as different colors, and the red and green indicators should have markedly different intensity or hue. Traffic light green (#87e1d1) and the current shade of red, for instance, would be acceptable.

If there's any question, the colors can be checked in a color blindness simulator:

http://www.vischeck.com/vischeck/vischeckImage.php
http://www.color-blindness.com/coblis-color-blindness-simulator/
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.givewaygames.colorblind_ads

There are several good documents on colorblindness accessibility around the web:

http://webaim.org/articles/visual/colorblind
http://24ways.org/2012/colour-accessibility/
http://www.usability.gov/get-involved/blog/2010/02/color-blindness.html

Comment 1

[Shyam Mani [:fox2mike]]

Moving to the MOC, they own status.mozilla.org

Comment 2

[david garvey:dgarvey]

I talked to the owner of status and it was explained to me that current incarnation of status was going away soon. Thanks for the input Kris. I am sure your input will be considered when selecting the predecessor to status.mozilla.org.

Comment 3

[Ryan C [:ryanc] (UTC-4)]

Closing till the next predecessor is determined and this can be brought back up again.