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Re: Colour accessibility

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From: Oscar DeLong
Date: May 5, 2008 7:20AM

One thing I would like to say is to be careful of how bright the red is.
If the red is to bright and glary it causes me to have headaches but
like you mentioned that is my personal situation. I have been able to
find nothing that suggests an excess of red on a webpage would cause
issues so long as you keep a few things in mind, which I'm sure you
already know. First, use high contrast since some people cannot see red
correctly. Second, never use color alone to distinguish something
important. Most of what I have found only talks about how
color-blindness causes complications with distinguishing things but
nothing seems to suggest that red causes other forms of accessibility
issues. I hope this helps.

Oscar DeLong

Oscar DeLong
Access Services/Reference Librarian
Ottenheimer Library
Pulaski Technical College
3000 West Scenic Drive
North Little Rock, AR 72118
(501) 812-2718
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