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Improve the layout nd use of icons in BCD tables

Open schalkneethling opened this issue 2 years ago β€’ 2 comments

I personally think that inconsistent icons can be good for accessibility, your example is super nice-looking but the circle icons can be a bit hard to tell apart at a quick glance if one has poor eyesight or red-green colorblindness.

Here is what yours looks like put through Chrome's deuteranopia color filter (the most common form of colorblindness): Ε ime_Vidas_MDN_AFTER

I took a stab at making a mock-up, here is my attempt:

Before:

Andrew_Grant_MDN_BEFORE

After:

Andrew_Grant_MDN_AFTER

It's not as pretty as yours but the checkmark is visually distinguished from the X and question mark.

Originally posted by @Andrew6rant in https://github.com/mdn/yari/issues/5546#issuecomment-1078552004

schalkneethling avatar Mar 31 '22 20:03 schalkneethling

@ddbeck, I would appreciate your feedback on the above proposal. Thanks! Also see https://github.com/mdn/yari/issues/5804 which is essentially the same discussion.

schalkneethling avatar Mar 31 '22 20:03 schalkneethling

Thanks for posting it!

Here also is my concept put through the deuteranopia filter:

Andrew_Grant_MDN_AFTER_DEUTERANOPIA

Andrew6rant avatar Mar 31 '22 20:03 Andrew6rant

Duplicate of https://github.com/mdn/yari/issues/5804:

In the mean-time, we have addressed the readability of the BCD tables by using circles only for no support, unknown support and pre-release feature (see here):

caugner avatar Nov 15 '22 11:11 caugner