Technobits — the Blog

As you have probably noticed, extra credit assignments on the course schedules have been indicated by red text. It hadn’t occurred to me that this could be a problem, but it is. A colorblind individual looking at the schedule wouldn’t be able to tell that a particular assignment was extra credit since they wouldn’t see that the assignment was in red. One of the students in this morning’s class is in exactly this situation and very kindly pointed out the problem (which I applaud him for doing!).

That’s been fixed — extra credit assignments are still indicated in red, but they are now italicized as well. If it turns out that this doesn’t fix the problem well enough, I’ll try something else. By the way, the fix was extremely simple, since the site uses Cascading Style Sheets for all formatting. All that it required was to add a single line of code to the global style sheet. Without that, it would have required editing several hundred lines of code in several different files, with plenty of possibility for error.

This entry was written by Julia Benson-Slaughter and was posted on Monday, August 28th, 2006 at 1:23 pm and is filed under General technology, Web technology. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.