Thanks for the kind words.
Though I'm a keyboard kinda guy, I do appreciate your guitar posts a lot. 😌
As someone who's partially colorblind, it's always nice when things stand out enough for me to see them well. Strangely, I didn't really have any colorblindness until maybe a decade and a half ago. I noticed it because I'd say, "I like the $color of your $item." People would argue with me. This went on for way too long before I started to realize it was me and went in to be tested. My color vision was fine when I was younger - 'cause they tested it as part of the physical to join the military.
Yup, for a few years, I was obstinate and wrong about the color of things. I had some apologies to make!
What about poal's colored names?
That's a trick question!
LOL Umm... I have no idea? I don't know if I'm seeing the intended colors.
Colorblindness is a spectrum (ha! I see what I did there) and some folks only see gray. Me? I don't see a number of the various hues. To me, certain shades of blue will appear black. Certain greens will appear to be other greens - but I still pick up part of the spectrum that green lies in. I also have issues with yellows and oranges, but that's only in certain parts of the spectrum.
So, I've seen the colored names and they stand out with good contrast. I can't actually be certain that I'm seeing the intended colors.
With the default dark them on Poal, I'd have a very, very hard time navigating the site if you used dark blue. I'd see the dark blue as black and it would not have enough contrast.
As it stands, I think I see the colored names. I think I see and notice them all, but I can't actually be sure. I am, after all, partially colorblind! Because of the way light works, there's still light in other parts of the spectrum - so I'll see a totally different color.
To answer the question as well as I can, I have no trouble navigating Poal in the default theme.
That's something I appreciate.
Sort of related, I am slowly progressing to worse. It's a very slow process and I'll likely be dead before I achieve complete colorblindness. I worry about losing part of the orange spectrum as it'd make hunting damned near impossible to do with enough safety imposed. The high-viz nature of the orange helps, but I worry about losing that part of the spectrum 'cause I really like hunting.
This color here is a little difficult for me to make out, but I can read it well enough:
http://pix.toile-libre.org/upload/original/1541969546.png
To me, the "comment reply: ..." is a pretty dark blue. Unfortunately, I'm not sure if it really is a dark blue.
Hold on...
Alright, the eldest hoodlum tells me it's "a little dark but I can see it easy." To me, it's a bit hard to distinguish, but I can do it. It's not too bad, yet. For all I know, that'll change in the next couple of years.
It's a really weird ailment to have!
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