Colow_Leper Posted January 30, 2012 Posted January 30, 2012 A certain other MMO, which shall remain nameless *ahem* used a colour code for values - in crafting, quest dificulty, target strength, item value etc. This has been (mostly) adopted by other MMOs and, in turn, by SW;TOR. Slight problem here..... I'm red/green colour blind. Now, an add-on came up in that previos game, which (eventually) was actually added to the UI itself - and it was very VERY useful! To give you an idea (and only speaking about my own version of colour-blindness) Most Red/Green colour blind people see no green at all and red is much less bright. The upshot of this is that the colour scale used appears as follows:- (what is displayed -> what we see) Grey -> Grey White -> White Yellow -> Yellow Green -> Yellow Blue -> Blue Purple -> Blue Orange -> Red Red -> Red About 10% of males suffer with this - and a further percentage have a lower level problem with colour. Something like 0.0001% of females have it
Touchbass Posted January 30, 2012 Posted January 30, 2012 /Bump! Lets hope Bioware gets on this issue, one of my best friends has this issue so lets hope something get addressed soon
Felioats Posted January 30, 2012 Posted January 30, 2012 (edited) I'm not color blind and, as far as I know, no one I know is. But I continue to be amazed that games of any genre are released without being made accessible for the color blind. At least SWTOR uses credits instead of gold, silver and copper coins. I remember one poster on that other game who complained to him, prices were like, "Are you sure you want to spend 37 coins?" The absurdity of it annoyed me so much that after awhile, I flagged one of these posts for a moderator with a message that they needed to do something about this. Next patch, they did. I wouldn't for any other issue, but come on, for helping the disabled? It's embarrassing that games still have this problem. As I understand it, there are less common kinds of color blindness with their own difficulties with certain colors, so the best solution is to actually just add text. [blaster of Droid Slaying (Artifact)] Edited January 30, 2012 by Felioats
ScytheNoire Posted January 30, 2012 Posted January 30, 2012 You know you can switch the difficult setting with the top right selection box? You can choose it to not show colours, but another method, like numbers.
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