[Fwd: Re: [Fwd: Re: Bugsilla users]]

[Jeff]

> >  I would agree with Mikhail that although accessibility is important, we
> > don't have to penalize 95% of the users to make Bugzilla accessible to 5% of
> > the users. 
>
> It's higher than that, but note that color blindness is only one
> reason we don't use color to differentiate between bug statuses by default.

Yeah, I believe the numbers for color blindness are 1 in 12, or 8%. 
And, I don't think colors are that useful for relaying information
such as bug statuses, anyway.  I remember learning somewhere that a
study was done and that colors were unable to relay much more
information other than grouping (all these red things are together,
all these blue things are together).

>From looking at Mantis' color scheme, one would have to be constantly
negotaiting color meanigs in one's head, e.g. ("ok, pink is urgent,
but brighter pink is higher priority, light blue is...").   I think
it's butt, anyway.

Whoops, not to push this thread away from the original topic anyway,
of one user's feedback.