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After using iOS 7 for a few days I can say that the icons are the least of our worries. Using ONLY color to differentiate clickable things is a travesty for co
by cloudwalking 13y ago
After using iOS 7 for a few days I can say that the icons are the least of our worries.
Using ONLY color to differentiate clickable things is a travesty for colorblind people. I'm colorblind and iOS 7 is proving really frustrating.
The weather app, for example, is almost impossible for me to read.
- namank 13y agoDo the accessibility options help?
- sinnerswing 13y agoThey do. People just wants to bitch and whine about iOS 7. :)
- markkanof 13y agoWhy should they be necessary though? Presumably the original commenter was indicating that iOS 6 and earlier worked well for him/her in their default state. So how is it better to make the default state in iOS 7 less usable thus requiring the use of accessibility settings for a larger group of people?
- sinnerswing 13y agoGet an Android phone. problem solved.
- bconway 13y agoThe OP indicated he is colorblind. This very likely isn't the first or the last time he will need to break out the high-contrast option.
- shock-value 13y agoMaybe this is just bitching and whining, but as far as I am concerned iOS 7 is another "Apple Maps"-style upgrade disaster if they don't make a lot of UI changes. I really think people are going to hate it. I know it's just a beta, but I had the same hopes that Apple Maps would be improved during its beta (and commented to people that Apple was going to have big problems if it didn't) and look where that went. It's a shame too because they added a lot of good things like the new notifications layout, Siri improvements, control pane slide-out, etc.
- threeseed 13y agoAnd Apple plans to make a lot of UI changes. Because this is after all a BETA.
- hadem 13y agoReally? When have we seen Apple change its game like that before? Don't like Mission Control? Too bad, get used to it. Want Google Maps back after Apple pushed their maps too soon? Sorry, your stuck with Apple maps. Bad cell reception? You're just holding your phone wrong. There are many examples like this. I've seen many people say something along the lines of, "oh don't worry, this is just beta, it will all be better when it is released." It may, but I'm not going to hold my breath.
- refulgentis 13y agoMission Control? Redone in 10.9. Apologies if their engineers work too slowly for your pace. Google Maps? Google didn't want to license their data without Apple giving them location data. Apple can't force Google to let them use Google's data. The next best thing was Google Maps on the App Store, which his what happened. Bad cell reception? Sort of a silly example, given they provided video examples on their site of every other major cell phone sold at the time exhibiting that behavior. However, they gave out free bumpers and extended the return period if it was an issue worthy of return. Also, they redesigned the phone _on the very next release_, the Verizon iPhone 4. This was unheard of at the time, and to this time, core hardware usually doesn't change on the *S releases, much less before then. You can continue to enumerate the many examples you know like this (sic), if you'd like.
- vacri 13y agoHowever, they gave out free bumpers and extended the return period if it was an issue worthy of return. It took quite a bit of community anger for them to get to this point. They spent a lot of effort doing the "you're just holding it wrong" angle first. The issue isn't that they fixed it by doing -foo-, it's that they considered the fault to be in the user, not their design.
- smackfu 13y agoWhat option did they add that helps with this?
- iaskwhy 13y ago"Enhance Text Legibility", for example: http://i.imgur.com/5XhQsM9.png http://i.imgur.com/5XhQsM9.png (Not my picture, someone posted this on the last days and I shared it with a few friends so I still had the link.)
- gte910h 13y agoIn addition to the legibility enhancement, check out the larger text sizes.
- toyg 13y agoWay to make one feel good: "oh, you were fine using our previous product, but you're clearly not good enough for this one. There, have a look at the options for differently-able people, you're now officially in that category. Do you need help crossing the road, by the way?"
- micampe 13y agoI think your comment is very offensive towards “differently-able people”.
- CamperBob2 13y agoHow else should s/he make the point? As someone with "normal" eyesight, I should not have to enable accessibility aids in order to read the clock on my iPhone. In a sane world, iOS 7's graphic design decisions alone would already have knocked ten billion dollars off of AAPL's market cap. Slavishly copying the people who slavishly copied you in the last round is not the way forward.
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- micampe 13y agoWhat you are saying is that the option would be fine if it was in a fonts menu but it’s offensive because it is in accessibility. That is not right. You are absolutely free to think the font choice is poor and that the existence of that option proves it, but you should not use the accessibility menu as your rationalization excuse.
- toyg 13y agoApologies, but that's exactly the point: people who wouldn't otherwise think of themselves as different are now forced to go through the accessibility features, which inevitably carry some baggage. Would BMW ever force left-handed people to install a visibly different steering-wheel?
- gte910h 13y agoThey help tons
- shock-value 13y agoEven for non-colorblind folks, Apple's use of white text over light colored or detail heavy images (depending on your background or for example what song you are listening to in the case of the lock screen) is extremely troublesome. Edit: Here's an example of the lock screen going hilariously wrong: http://i.imgur.com/pZhkpmC.jpg http://i.imgur.com/pZhkpmC.jpg But even when it's just the default green background the text is hard to read at a glance.
- Trufa 13y agoIt took three tries, I was about to tell you that that it was perfectly readable. I was only seeing slide to unlock and the top icons, I'm guessing that proves your point.
- coldtea 13y agoThree ties to do what? I saw both immediately. Perhaps it has to do with your display brightness/contrast?
- narcissus 13y agoHe's talking about the time and date over the picture.
- Trufa 13y agoExactly.
- acchow 13y agoI went back and finally noticed the date. Still didn't see the time. Took me much more than three tries.
- coldtea 13y agoYes. And I saw both immediately. The only issue is not visibility -- it's that people might conflate them as parts of the background image. But that's just because you only see them now over that one image. After you've seen them with the background (album art?) changed, you'd know immediately what it is and where.
- wisty 13y agoIt's also a pain if you are new to the platform. For evidence, go to any website which uses light grey (or worse, red) to indicate links (instead of the standard color).
- joezydeco 13y agoIt's a shame that we've developed all of these beautiful high-resolution/high-contrast displays...and now we're putting everything on-screen in light grey on a bright white background in Helvetica Light. My eyes just can't take this. I'm not colorblind but I do need reading glasses. I wiped the iOS Gmail app just because the contrast gave me headaches.
- gte910h 13y agoTurn down the brightness. Seriously, if you're getting headaches you have it way too high for your normal environment's lighting.
- joezydeco 13y agoBrightness isn't the problem. I never change it from default. These new 'airy' layouts are just plain harder to read.
- nitrogen 13y agoDefault brightness is probably brighter than minimum brightness (it is on Android, at least).
- pietro 13y agoLowering the brightness actually makes it worse. It has nothing to do with brightness and everything to do with contrast. The older you get, the more contrast you need.
- gte910h 13y agoIf it's age, you're getting more farsighted, and need to go to the "increase text size" setting, which works considerably better than anything in iOS6 You might click "Increase text legibility". I'm stoked for this ability for some relatives who's otherwise whip out reading glasses for email.
- gte910h 13y agoFrom what I've seen via daltonize/XScope/etc iOS 7 is significantly clearer for many apps for the common 2 types of color blindness. Do you have tritanopia or something else? The weather app isn't in "iOS7" default style and is a little hard to read for normal trichromates. And honestly, if only the weather app is crap, not like there aren't 203948203498 weather apps. Are any of the other apps hard for you to read? I know I'm constantly checking contrast/colorblind appearance in apps from designers who don't necessarily look at designs with CB people in mind. Invert colors almost certainly will fix things if all else fails, but I suspect "enhance text legibility" or "increase font size" will do the trick for 99% of apps.
- threeseed 13y agoCan I ask how you manage to use the web ? Because Apple's use of colour to identify links is identical to 90% of the sites I visit daily.
- antidaily 13y agoUm... get Lasik. (im kidding)
- aaronbrethorst 13y agoI don't say this to be a smartass, but instead because I want to see this fixed. Have you filed Radars on these problems? If not, please file Radars immediately.