Color-coding for the color blind

RootsMagic
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I made this request and received positive response a few years back, but it apparently got lost somewhere in the shuffle. I was reminded of the topic at my local group’s most recent meeting.

I have now met two color-blind genealogists who use RMG, but can only marginally use its color coding feature. Both have the same suggestion.

The one with the most severe red-green deficiency cannot distinguish red and green, and most of the greenish colors are just gray-ish (as I am led to believe). They can use color coding, but on a very limited basis.

A solution for them? Patterns. We have 27 colors, and I would hope we could add another 8 or more. We could have cross-hatches diagonal and vertical/horizontal, wide bars vertical, horizontal, and diagonal right and left; fine lines, same variations. The list should be larger than this, but this is a first shot (well, second, but that was some time back.

Could this become reality?

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Confirming the request has been reported to development. It is very different to add graphics verses colors in that location. I cannot say if it’s possible or not.

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If development finds it impossible, I (and at least two other users) would hope that we would be informed of such, so we can stop waiting and hoping, and can move on, rather than continuing to futilely wonder about it.

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Emojis or unicode are commonly accepted alternatives to color coding. I’m sure there is a guide for accessibility which includes information specific to people with color-blindness on the web somewhere but I can’t lay my hands on it at the moment.

As an aside, this on average effects 1 in 12 men and 1 in 200 women. My sister is one of those lucky(?) enough to be a color blind female and it has caused all sorts of issues for her over the years.