EPTHow do you get a green probe icon btw?
Color Blindness and the Red Nuke Dot. - Page 10
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thopol
Japan4560 Posts
How do you get a green probe icon btw? | ||
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endGame
United States394 Posts
Colorblind accessibility We would then learn one of the most interesting facts of the night. While asking if Starcraft II will include accessibility options for the colorblind, Chris revealed that he himself is colorblind. The shocking part of the statement was that no, Starcraft II has not included any colorblind accessibility options even though the lead producer of the project is colorblind. Truthfully, he sounded aggravated but resigned. He goes on to say that, he has trouble with reds and greens as well as yellows and light greens. Quite honestly, we showed surprise in that this was not a priority for Blizzard, particularly since the lead producer from the project was colorblind himself. Chris continues by saying that they would really like to include some colorblind accessibility later on down the road however, with a list of things that are already not going to make it before shipment, colorblind options was not high on the priority list. This was amazingly unfortunate because 10% of the male population is colorblind. One can only wonder why this is not a priority. Ten percent seemed kind of high. I dunno if they made that stat up of the top of their head or rounded a few million people, but according to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute its only 7 percent of men who are colorblind. That is a 2008 report, though. And its specifically American men. Still I think something should be done on Blizzards behalf, if only to add in some options for the "nuke dot". EDIT: Here's the study if anyone cares  http://www.hhmi.org/senses/b130.html | ||
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neobowman
Canada3324 Posts
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endGame
United States394 Posts
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Liquid`Jinro
Sweden33723 Posts
On November 19 2009 06:30 thopol wrote: Nice bump. I hadn't seen this thread or even thought about it. How do you get a green probe icon btw? Are you making a color-blindness joke or do you seriously see my probe as green ;P? Because it's red. | ||
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VorcePA
United States1102 Posts
On November 19 2009 06:24 FrozenArbiter wrote: Just wanted to bump this: http://ablegamers.com/game-news/AbleGamers-sits-down-with-Chris-Sigaty-Lead-Producer-of-Starcraft-II.html Excerpt: I can understand where they're coming from. It's not high on the priority list because it probably won't stop colorblind individuals from buying the game, like me. I may have red/green colorblindness, but I live with it, and I love Starcraft, and I think Starcraft II is going to be awesome. Now, if they were to do something big out the same way dedicated servers were left out of Modern Warfare 2 out, I'd tell Blizzard to fuck right off. (Dedicated servers wouldn't work because iccup would be on that shit so fast :p ) | ||
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Liquid`Jinro
Sweden33723 Posts
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-orb-
United States5770 Posts
On November 19 2009 07:48 FrozenArbiter wrote: You mean like removing LAN support ;p? | ||
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blade55555
United States17423 Posts
On November 19 2009 07:48 FrozenArbiter wrote: You mean like removing LAN support ;p? thats not anywhere near as big imo. | ||
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-orb-
United States5770 Posts
it's still pretty huge it might not be as big of a deal as screwing over all online play completely, but it's still a big deal | ||
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sRapers_ValkS
United States644 Posts
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Ruthless
United States492 Posts
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Liquid`Jinro
Sweden33723 Posts
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armed_
Canada443 Posts
On November 19 2009 11:28 _rdm_ wrote: seems like a lot of work to make an accommodation that really doesn't lower your experience of the game as a general user. The amount of work required to put in a simple colour change option for a few effects is so ridiculously small compared to the rest of development that this shouldn't even be a consideration. | ||
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Da1d5
United States18 Posts
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cgrinker
United States3824 Posts
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ForSC2
United States580 Posts
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meeple
Canada10211 Posts
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RaptorX
Germany646 Posts
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United States38 Posts
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