Posted by Benjamin Esham on 09/20/06 01:19

pittendrigh wrote:

> Now we echo the string of <b> tags. Six out of the 256 randomly generated
> digits will be red, all the others some undetermined color. But we know
> which ones are red.

Not if the user is colorblind. Perhaps it would be possible to make some of
the numbers bolded, italicized, or sized differently from the others.
Basing anything on color, though, is a big accessibility issue that is
easily avoided in this case.

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