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With new groups just being added, is almost impossible to see what you are subscribed to at a quick glance.
You have to look for the (d) at the end of Subscribe on the Browse The List Of Groups page. Please change the wording to say Unsubscribe, put a dashed box around it, change the color or something.
Edit: Someone in my house mentioned that they are different colors. Please choose a different color as it is not color-blind friendly :)
Or just don't make your UI depend on colour at all!
Once Tildes is open source (and once my exams are over), accessibility is something I'm super excited about working on.
Yeah, @deimos has talked in the past about how he recognizes he doesn’t know enough about accessibility and welcomes help in that regard once the site is open sourced.
I suggest "subscribed"/"not subscribed" because I prefer labels to be the status, not how that status will change if you click the button. Also @twelph's point about color-blind friendliness is salient.
On the other hand, buttons typically have an action on them - going against that often leads to confusion as to what the current state actually is. I remember a Chrome extension I used had an icon that could be red or green, and I could never remember whether red meant that it was turned off or that it would turn off if I clicked on it.
Not that my blue/purple is good either (obviously), but red/green colorblindness is the most common form, so that won't work for a lot of people either.
"People with deuteranomaly and protanomaly are collectively known as red-green colour blind and they generally have difficulty distinguishing between reds, greens, browns and oranges. They also commonly confuse different types of blue and purple hues."
Source: http://www.colourblindawareness.org/colour-blindness/types-of-colour-blindness/
I personally lack red cones. Using red/green or blue/purple links will confuse up to to 5% of the population, myself included.
I'm curious: do browsers have a standard "colorblind mode" or anything? I went with blue/purple because that's almost always been the standard browser colors for unvisited and visited links.
In desktop browsers I can change the color of visited links through the options.
Yeah, there's no particular standard though, each user generally just adjusts individually if the defaults aren't useful for them?
Correct, but seeing the difference in color in already visited links is just a tiny issue. Almost all websites that I visit nowadays usually have highly contrasting colors, thicker lines, or varying patterns,because usability for colorblindness has been a main point in web design for a while. Here's a really well done guide: https://www.designmantic.com/community/website-design-guide-color-blind.php
Specifically this diagram should be pretty helpful: https://www.designmantic.com/community/images/web-design-guidelines/colorblindness-indistinguishable.png