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Re: dam-l http://www.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca/dams readability




Hello Dianne,
I'm testing it on my laptop, and indeed, it doesn't look good. There is
certainly too little contrast, and the clickable text is very difficult to
see. A white or pale blue background would be better.
/Christer Nilsson

At 18.09 1998-07-06 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi everyone:
>
>Can people who have web access take a look at the URL
>in the header and let me know if they find it easy to read
>in terms of visual aspects and what type of browser they are using.
>
>
>I've hada complaint that it is black text on a blue ground and that
>"noone could possibly read it."
>
>No one includes myself, my brother and my ywo housemates, as well as several
>collegues. ;)
>
>I'd like more opinions to get an idea if it's worth switching to a paler
>shade of blue.
>
>My feeling is that the difficulty lies with the complainants browser settings
>and prefernces!  Or maybe her screen is not set on high contrast and with
>enough light, ie some kinda monitor problem.
>
>I don't mind fixing it but it's the first complain on the new look I've had
>and i'm wondering if it's an outlier that, if i fix it to suit her i'm
>wrecking it for others.  I didn't want a screamingly garish contrast as it
>gives some people headaches to look at a page that looks too vibrant.
>
>Ideas? Kudos?  Brickbats?
>
>:-)
>-Dianne
>
>
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Christer Nilsson, Riparian Ecology Group, Dept of Ecological Botany, 
Uminova Science Park, Umea University, SE-901 87  Umea, Sweden
phone +46 (0)90 786 60 03, fax +46 (0)90 15 48 05
e-mail christer@ekbot.umu.se, website http://www.ekbot.umu.se/river/

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