Re: [gentoo-dev] status of http://wwwredesign.gentoo.org

[Benno Schulenberg <benno@nietvergeten.nl>]

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Curtis Napier wrote:
> I'm especially interested in feedback from anyone who uses
> accessibilty programs such as screen readers or if you are color
> blind or have any other accessibilty issues.

Not being blind or otherwise visually handicapped, but I use rather 
large letters (18 pixels), do not use the entire screen width for 
the browser window, and like to keep the monitor at low brightness 
levels.  This means that indeed the green in the top bars is too 
dark to read.  And that this green line wraps.  And the text in the 
blabla-bar ("Portage: an easy to use...") flows out of its box (see 
the pngs).  This is both in Konqueror and in Firefox.  In Konqueror 
alone the "Design by" in the bottom line wraps, and the little 
green arrows in the menus at the bottom are missing, which makes it 
hard to see that "Name/Logo Guideline" is a single entry.

What I dislike most is that the links are always underlined.  I've 
got my browsers configured not to underline links, and now this new 
Gentoo style sheet forces these underlines.

The blabla-bar is unneeded, in my opinion it takes up too much 
space, it makes it look too much like a commercial site, and it 
makes the overall page too dark.  Better make the menus that now 
sit at the bottom of the front page sit at the left.  The little 
pictures in those menus are not needed, especially since the one for 
Resources is incomprehensible.  The infinity sign at the top 
doesn't look enough like two O-s, and what is it supposed to refer 
to?  Better use two plain O-s, and make them bend just a little 
toward each other.

Benno

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