Canon Rumors site update
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I was working on the blog side, I haven't hit the forum side. I don't think gear deals need forum threads, so I'm going to sort that out today. Thanks for your input.
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We have no control over what Xenforo does with their software, and customizing core functionality can lead to disaster.
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We're dealing with a intermittent issue of articles getting a 404 error. The short term "fix" is simple, but it will happen again. This seems to be fairly common for Wordpress migrations, if it happens please let me know. I believe it's a server-side issue and we have an active ticket open to troubleshoot the problem.
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Can you confirm what I am seeing please.
When you have a notification number bubble beside the "forum list" menu item, if you click through to see the forum list, none of the boards are bold showing where the unread notifications are from? I'd like to make sure this is a bug and not just something on my end.
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Not 100% sure what you mean. But suppose, yes.
Here is an overview, where I see a bubble:
When I then go to the forum list, I see nothing bold, only "New" marks. Nothing in bold.
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I give a lecture on Accessibility in my Software Engineering course each semester and at a recent faculty retreat since I have to rework the course materials for every new course I teach. I am a colorblind photographer (protanopia or red deficient). I didn't find out until I failed the flight physical for the USAFA. There were indications that became more apparent at that point. I see some red, but have trouble distinguishing yellow/green, blue/purple, and cyan/white.
Computer displays can cause trouble, particularly with dark mode. When students come to me for help with a dark mode screen, I tell them they can close their laptop. After my lecture, they understand why. I made some suggestions to correct the colors on the last revision of CR so I could use dark mode, looks like I'll need to go back to light mode for now. Here are some views of the new CR site adjusted for different types of color blindness. Red text and highlights on a dark background are particularly bad for me as you will see. The percentages are for the US population, where about 8% of the population is color blind, mostly males.
Computer displays can cause trouble, particularly with dark mode. When students come to me for help with a dark mode screen, I tell them they can close their laptop. After my lecture, they understand why. I made some suggestions to correct the colors on the last revision of CR so I could use dark mode, looks like I'll need to go back to light mode for now. Here are some views of the new CR site adjusted for different types of color blindness. Red text and highlights on a dark background are particularly bad for me as you will see. The percentages are for the US population, where about 8% of the population is color blind, mostly males.
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In the developer options of Android there is the option to simulate colour blindness. I have set my screen to grayscale 99% of the time unless I really need colour. The advantage of a grayscale screen on your phone in that it becomes slightly less addictive. On my Desktop I still enabled colour though, because I do all the photo editing there.
It would be cool to see "white pixels" without any colour filter on it on the R1. That could improve dynamic range. Not sure if the technology is ready yet. It may have some downsides, because otherwise it would already be used.
It would be cool to see "white pixels" without any colour filter on it on the R1. That could improve dynamic range. Not sure if the technology is ready yet. It may have some downsides, because otherwise it would already be used.
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I have added the accessibility options to the forum, previously I just had them on the blog.
You will see this button at the bottom left on desktop (It's currently off for mobile).
Dark Mode and Light mode are set to "Autodetect" on the site. You can select which mode that you want at the bottom left by clicking the toggle or selecting the theme.
The Dark Mode will get an edit for the forum, the red on grey is bad.
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We're dealing with a 404 problem after the migration of the new site. I am leaving it broken for systems administrators to deal with. If I fix it, it will be temporary and will come back. This is relatively common for Wordpress migrations... more than it should be.
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Thanks for working on this. There are many tools I cannot use in dark mode, even with their so-called color blind safe themes. Some tools allow me to make a custom theme, but those are rare.
You can use this tool to verify color contast. https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/
The current contrasts are 2.85 and 2.7 for the red on the two shades of grey, well below the 7 required by WCAG 2.1 (Web Content Accessability Guidelines).
Some of the filter/forum name backgrounds could use some attention. Cinema has a contrast of 1.84. I usually aim for the 9-11 range. That gives the best chance of having good contrast with black text or white text.
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The red will be gone today. We'll be moving to a similar yellow as the previous site. Thank you for the lesson and the tool. I really appreciate it.
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If you could fix it in light mode as well, that would be great. The Top bar is dark mode, even when in light mode (at least int he autodetect).
The down-triangles are really hard for me to see (but I fail all of the Ishihari test plates, so...). The "high saturation" toggle that gave it a helpfull boost of contrast between the red and the black background, but then the logo looks worse
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Sure. We're addressing some backend bugs next week, I'll add this to the list.If you could fix it in light mode as well, that would be great. The Top bar is dark mode, even when in light mode (at least int he autodetect).
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The down-triangles are really hard for me to see (but I fail all of the Ishihari test plates, so...). The "high saturation" toggle that gave it a helpfull boost of contrast between the red and the black background, but then the logo looks worse
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