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RE: change summary screen shade from pink

just by color anyway  Caught it the first time, color blindness is a fact of life for some people, it doesn't keep them from driving a car or knowing when the traffic light is green vs red because they have a method of determination that works just as well as color cue's do for people who are not color blind.
jwh
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-support@gesn.com [mailto:owner-support@gesn.com]On Behalf Of Tari Runyan
Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 10:42 AM
To: support@dieboldes.com
Subject: Re: change summary screen shade from pink

one of the people I trained is CB and could not see the pink on the summary screen - just shades so had no idea which races were voted and which were no - just by color anyway
 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 8:54 AM
Subject: RE: change summary screen shade from pink

The summary screen color cue is not significant to a color blind person, no problem. The fact that no candidates are listed below the race's title is the real information as to whether a race has been voted or not. This should be explained in training.
[Jeff Hallmark] 
 
 -----Original Message-----
From: owner-support@gesn.com [mailto:owner-support@gesn.com]On Behalf Of Tari Runyan
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 5:24 PM
To: support@dieboldes.com
Subject: Re: change summary screen shade from pink

one of the people I trained is CB and could not see the pink on the summary screen - just shades so had no idea which races were voted and which were no - just by color anyway
 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 9:29 AM
Subject: RE: change summary screen shade from pink

I'm going to be pedantic here. What Greg refers to as colour blindness is exceedingly rare, and is (logically) referred to as total colour blindness.
 
Colour blind people do in fact see colours. The condition refers to an inability to distinguish between two colours. Most commonly, the two colours are red and green, and the condition occurs in varying degrees. A rarer condition is the inability to distinguish blue and purple, or yellow.
 
That's why the tests for colour blindness usually consist of looking at a field of red spots and seeing if you can see the number (composed of green spots) within the field. or blue/purple/yellow.
 
As far as I know, there's no condition where people are unable to distinguish between pink/black. or pink/white for that matter.
 
Josh.
 
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-support@gesn.com [mailto:owner-support@gesn.com]On Behalf Of Greg Forsythe
Sent: July 11, 2002 04:32
To: support@dieboldes.com
Subject: RE: change summary screen shade from pink

None, hence the name.

 

They see colours as shades of gray, halftones.  The ideal is black letters on white background.  Red is seen almost as black.  The red ovals stand out nicely on the absentee ballots.  I would imagine black letters on pink shading is very difficult to see for colour blind folks.

 

Greg

 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-support@gesn.com [mailto:owner-support@gesn.com] On Behalf Of Keith Long
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 7:06 AM
To: support@dieboldes.com
Subject: RE: change summary screen shade from pink

 

Tari:  We have had that request in Maryland and Georgia.  Does anyone know what colors a color blind person can see?

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-support@gesn.com [mailto:owner-support@gesn.com]On Behalf Of Tari Runyan
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 7:09 PM
To: Support
Subject: change summary screen shade from pink

Color blind people cannot see the pink on the summary screen - needs to be a different color