[ENGLISH] Status colors more Friendly to Colorblind people

[Benjamin BALET]

Dear users,

Into one of the next versions, I'd like to make Jorani more friendly to Colorblind people.

After some diggings, I've found that around 10% of users have difficulties with colors in various degrees.

I took that into account by working with high contrasts, but after reading this excellent paper : http://jfly.iam.u-tokyo.ac.jp/color/ I realize that it is not enough.

In a nutshell, I see two possibilities:

1. The user could check an option into his personnal profile. If set, the color set will be personnalized.
   
2. I could globally revisit the set of colors used for the different status (accepted, planned, etc.) and days off. Still in the same paper, they suggest this set:

For example, accepted requests would not be green anymore, but blue instead, rejected requests would be vemillon, etc.

What is your feedback ? Don't hesitate to share your ideas and opinions.

Benjamin

[Michael Liebman]

Benjamin,

As someone who is red-green color blind, I'm all for this! However, I would suggest that the color changes be made across the board and not selectable per user. It would be very frustrating for the status to be shown to my employees in one color and then me having to translate "The request is green on my calendar" into blue on my version.

If you are looking for other palette options http://geog.uoregon.edu/datagraphics/color_scales.htm and http://colorbrewer2.org/ have some good choices. They are focused on statistical data and mapping, but it is easy to adapt their palettes for status.

An alternative to just changing the colors is what Trello has done with their color labels. They added patterns to the colors, which are mostly color blind friendly already: http://littlebigdetails.com/post/35775193711/trello-color-blind-friendly-mode-makes. This saves the trouble of trying to cover all of the prot- and deuteranomalies with one color scheme and helps with even more severe color blindnesses that are very difficult to find any color scheme for.

Michael

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