Colour blindness & the Linux Kernel Version History

Riley Williams (rhw@MemAlpha.CX)
Sat, 16 Oct 1999 17:14:15 +0100 (GMT)


Hi there.

Somebody sent me an email with comments regarding problems with the
Linux Kernel Version History pages for people suffering from colour
blindness. Unfortunately, I suffered a power cut whilst reading your
email, and when the power came back and I got back online, your email
had vanished, so can you please resend it.

Some points I will make with regards to this point though, which you
may wish to consider when resending it:

1. I suffer from Red-Green colour blindness myself, with the
result that I am not the ideal person to determine colour
schemes for web pages. It is largely for this reason that
I keep my pages reasonably simple, and don't normally use
lavish colour schemes.

2. Because of the above, I designed the pages to be readable
easily by myself, and by people suffering from the same
form of colour blindness. In general, I find pages on a
Cyan background the easiest to read, which is why I have
used that colour scheme on my pages.

I am of course willing to listen to any criticism on this front, and
to try out any suggestions that come my way, but if I can't read the
resulting pages myself, they will not go online. I consider this to be
reasonable.

Best wishes from Riley.

PS: The kernel versions page is now back online at the URL below, and
includes separate sublists both for each kernel series, and for
each year of development.

+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| There is something frustrating about the quality and speed of Linux |
| development, ie., the quality is too high and the speed is too high, |
| in other words, I can implement this XXXX feature, but I bet someone |
| else has already done so and is just about to release their patch. |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
* http://www.memalpha.cx/Linux/Kernel/

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