Re: Grammar Checking

On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Robert Staudinger 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.

Or perhaps (with amplitude normalisation)

*) ~~~~~~~~~~~~ bad spelling
1) /\/\/\/\/\/\
2) - - - - - - bad grammar
3) ||||||||||||

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