On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 16:13, msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au wrote:
[...]
> >> The second phase would be to grammar checking on the fly with green
> >> squiggles under text ala MS Word.
> >
> > This is a non-issue at this point, but please do not use green
> > squiggles. This makes the grammar checker very hard to use for
> > color-blind people like me and it doesn't conform to the GNOME HIG.
> >
>
> I was actaully wondering about the color-blindness issue. What would be a
> better colour? Blue? Purple?
The HIG says that information should not be carried by colour only.
A first suggestion would be to draw squiggles all around around the
phrase in question, not just underline. There might be better ways
though.
Rob
Received on Thu Sep 2 16:53:15 2004
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