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One school district I worked for a long time ago used to label backup tapes with color codes. This is a bad idea in general, but the real issue was the official
by jiggawatts 4y ago
One school district I worked for a long time ago used to label backup tapes with color codes. This is a bad idea in general, but the real issue was the official complaints:
Lemon — suggests that the system is of poor quality, or substandard.
Black — racist.
Brown — also racist.
Pink — too girlie for straight male staff.
And so on.
Eventually they had to change the system because this went all the way up to the minister of education.
”They’re just colors of the rainbow Karen! No, not the gay one!”
- aussieshibe 4y agoI've been told I wasn't allowed to color code anything in a UI I worked on because "someone might be living with color vision deficiency". Not that we have to also provide an alternative for people who can't use the color coding, but we can't use color coding at all. The world is full of people with good intentions and bad ideas.
- sinity 4y ago> I've been told I wasn't allowed to color code anything in a UI I worked on because "someone might be living with color vision deficiency". Refuse to do GUI at all - surely terminal is better for blind people.
- dTal 4y agoRefuse to write the program entirely. It's ableist against people too unintelligent to use computers.