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lets ask someone who's colorblind

• bongodongobob 3y ago
  Red green colorblind checking in. In the case of a toggle, left is off, right is on. Up is on, down is off. Red tends to have less chroma, so dark is off, light is on if there aren't any other cues.
  • vidarh 3y ago
    While that seems to be more common by a fairly large factor, in a quick search of images of toggle buttons there were at least two examples of left being on already in the top 10 for me. I also found a few that had both variants in the same image, and a few examples where from the image alone I couldn't tell if my life depended on it whether they are in the left or right position, and what that means because there's no shading or geometrical hint as to which part is meant to be the actual toggle. I wish you were right and that this was consistent, and when I read it I did that image search because I hoped you were and that I somehow just hadn't realist. But sadly it's not consistent. That said, the same image search also demonstrated people managing to mess up the equivalent of a checkbox too (by changing the label, so it's not clear if it needs to be "ticked" to disable the state currently indicated by the label) so it's clear the problem isn't just checkbox vs. toggle.
  • rypskar 3y ago
    >>Up is on, down is off That depends on where you are from, in some regions light switches are on when up and in other places they are off when up