[155973] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Color vision for network techs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Black)
Fri Aug 31 17:08:29 2012
From: Matthew Black <Matthew.Black@csulb.edu>
To: "'betsy.schwartz@gmail.com'" <betsy.schwartz@gmail.com>, "nanog@nanog.org"
<nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 21:07:52 +0000
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Yeah, I had that trouble with the old Cabletron (Enterasys) network managem=
ent software. About 6% of Euro-American males suffer from Deuteranopia. I c=
annot see the difference between dark green and dark red. Bright green and =
bright red are better. It was not possible to adjust the Cabletron software=
. Contrary to popular belief, most of us can easily tell the difference bet=
ween red and green traffic signals.
Color-proficient readers can get an idea of our disability from this websit=
e that sells Photoshop filters for graphics artists:
http://www.vischeck.com
Check out the Examples.
matthew black
california state university, long beach
-----Original Message-----
From: Betsy Schwartz [mailto:betsy.schwartz@gmail.com]=20
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2012 1:30 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Color vision for network techs
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*.
