Re: Feedback wanted: syntax highlighting in the LilyPond documentation

[Jean Abou Samra]

Le 02/01/2022 à 17:01, Knute Snortum a écrit :
> On Sun, Jan 2, 2022 at 7:10 AM Jean Abou Samra <jean@abou-samra.fr> wrote:
> ...
> > [Marc]
> > > It will be necessary to keep an uncolored version for men (in
> > > principle women do not have this problem) who do not see well certain
> > > colors.
> >
> > This is taken care of -- the colors have been
> > chosen to have enough contrast to the white
> > background to be readable even for those
> > with impaired vision. Since I am not such a
> > person, I have been checking the scheme against
> > WCAG recommendations. The color with least
> > contrast has 6.15, which is quite a bit
> > above the WCAG AA level of 4.5. This means that
> > even someone not discerning colors at all
> > can read such highlighted code.
> I am colorblind (which BTW means that it's hard to distinguish certain
> colors, not that everything is gray).


Sorry if I gave a wrong impression. I didn't
mean that everything actually looked gray, just
that it was the extreme imaginary case encompassing
all types of colorblindness (I think there are
different ones, right?).


> I can't see a difference
> between the blue and the purple, but this doesn't cause a problem for
> me -- I just miss some of the highlighting, which is unavoidable.  The
> bold terms jump out at me, but the coloration seems reasonable.  All
> in all, the scheme seems reasonable to me.


Thanks for the input! That's reassuring.

Best regards,
Jean