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Color blind
dov_feder
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I am just starting to teach myself Onshape. One of the bigger challenges I have is that I am color blind and cannot see the colors of the lines. The black and the dark blue and green all look alike to me. I did some research and don't think I can customize those colors. So if any of you have any suggestions I would greatly appreciate it.
Thank you.
Dov
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https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/9817/is-there-a-way-to-personalize-the-user-interface-colors
I’m colorblind also.
There are no customizations of the colors. It probably wouldn’t even help, to be honest.
You can try the light mode vs the dark mode. It’s under your name in the top right corner of the screen. It might help sometimes in sketcher.
The good news is it won’t really affect you much. All the CAD software (actually most software) has the same issue with colorblind users. You’ll be able to learn and design just fine.
Bump Please add colour blind mode
+1
Taught my buddy how to use OnShape as his first CAD Software and he's really struggling because his red/green colorblindness makes it impossible for him to distinguish features with an error in them (red text) from normal features (gray text). Similarly, he was having difficulties distinguishing errored generation in pink (eg a fillet that's too large) from valid generation for the same reason.
Switching to the experimental dark mode helped a bit due to the slightly different contrast values, but something dedicated to make errors stand out more is a critical accessibility feature imo.
My suggestion would be an option to animate errors--for example, when a feature is errored in the feature tree, it pulses red or slowly blinks, and the same happens with errored selections in the 3d workspace (so you can tell which line is causing the error).
More generally, I'd suggest more helpers that reduce reliance on being able to see specific colors.
This sounds like a better option for colour blindness than trying to get contrasting shades of grey since it is different for each person with colour difficulties.
color deficiency here too. Red green specifically. But not near as bad as tilman’s buddy
Colour should never be the only form of coding.