[155970] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Color vision for network techs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Betsy Schwartz)
Fri Aug 31 16:30:26 2012
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Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 16:29:30 -0400
From: Betsy Schwartz <betsy.schwartz@gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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I installed monitoring software with different colored status dots,
and discovered that we had three color-blind team members. After a
pleasant hour's tweaking I ended up with green diamonds, red X's,
purple squares, and yellow exclamation points (and on this particular
application a mouse-over would also tell you the name of the color
gif) Looked better for *everyone*.