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davideagle
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FME Desktop includes limited options to customise the interface to support people with impaired vision for example, other than alterations to the font.

I frequently work with colleagues and customers with some level of colour-blindness and the ability to discern the difference between a red and green attribute port arrow, or a transformer parameter button, or a featuretype connection arrow (the main offenders) colour is difficult or impossible. This means that 'issues' in the design or setup of an FME Workspace can often be overlooked with the resulting data problems.

This makes interesting reading regarding some of the challenges:

http://www.colourblindawareness.org/colour-blindness/types-of-colour-blindness/

The ability to apply a blanket colour change to some of these port colours would be very handy I'm sure.

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erik_jan
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  • January 7, 2016

Even a tooltip stating the color or status in text if you hoover over a port would help a lot.


davideagle
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  • January 22, 2016

An interesting thing cropped up today on this topic, we've been asked of the FME Server and FME Cloud's interfaces:

Do the web pages meet level AA of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0?

 

Do the web pages meet level AAA of the W3C WCAG 2.0?

If the web pages do not currently meet level AA, does the supplier plan to achieve conformance?

Whilst these can adequately be answered by explaining that the interfaces can be customised and integrated with your own compliant web pages or leverage the service, rather than the stock interface... it still highlights that there are areas of 'accessibility' that need to have some further consideration both in FME Desktop and FME Server to meet with the increasingly strict IT procurement rules.


sclkimly
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  • March 10, 2016

I would also like to add my vote for this functionality, but for a different reason.. When documenting, it would be nice to have a black background, for the various objects to stand out, visually.


fmelizard
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  • March 13, 2016

Ironically we've used a variety of tools which purportedly simulate many varieties of colour blindness to help us as we pick colors, but clearly these aren't really doing the trick. We'll see what we can do...


mark2atsafe
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We do now have a theme for deuteranopia under Tools > FME Options > Appearance. This applies to objects on the canvas - but it appears we've missed out the log window and other places in which coloured text appears. That's PR#78594. There was talk of other themes but I don't know what the progress on that is.

 


mark2atsafe
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A prototype of "dark mode" was presented at the 2017 user conference. I believe FME2018 is the intended target date for release.

 

 


oliver.morris
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this would be a really big help. the red/green for attributes is really hard to discern. Thanks


oliver.morris
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I was hoping the dark mode in 2019 would have helped but with my colour blindness it doesn't really, just the identifying matching attributes is really tricky. Please can you do something there are lots of colour blind people out there!

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