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Improve the layout nd use of icons in BCD tables
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):
I took a stab at making a mock-up, here is my attempt:
Before:
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
@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.
Thanks for posting it!
Here also is my concept put through the deuteranopia filter:
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):