i'm red/green color blind and struggle with the future star potentials every season. seeing as though red/green color blindness is the most common color impairment, i think it would be wise for the WIS to change the high and low potentials to two colors that are easier to see. would you guys support a change in the potential's colors?

Actually, the high and low potentials are both the same color.





shhhhhh

I hadn't considered colorblindness as impacted by FSS... I definitely think WiS should come up with some way to differentiate this for all users...

Best thing to do would be to add a + to signify high and a - to signify low.  I assume the only place affected is the search results when using the ratings view correct?  The FSS tab already uses different language in addition to the colors so it is not necessary there.  Oops, the comparison pop-up as well will need something.

Uglyskunk if you use Firefox I can tell you how to change the colors yourself; if you are interested, send me a site mail

I am red/green color blind as well and it is a pain to differentiate the highs and lows without reading the actual words in individual fss reports. I would think orange or blue in place of either red or green would do the trick.

I like red and green. I'm with kmason.

Wow, I never though about that. I give it up to you guys though because you have 7 championships combined and I can't imagined how annoying it would be to go through this every recruiting season. 

This is a change that definitely should be made.

i'm severely color blind (red/green is just the tipping point...i asked WIS to change this when they first instituted potential). so, here's the move: view all search results by ratings. copy it all and paste into an excel 2003 spreadsheet. i actually do every page of my search results... then, you format.

first, clear out any non-blank backgrounds. to do this, select all (top left corner of the spreadsheet); hit "control h"; go to "options". in the format drop down, select "cells". click the "pattern" tab. select white (bottom right corner of colors). if you want this to only apply to ratings, rather than categories, you'll have to manually select the rows that you want changed (that's what i do - i also sort everything so that my categories are bunched together and i can drag them to whatever player i'm looking at). once all of the cells have a white background, pick any recruit from the WIS page and find a "high" rating. go back to the excel spreadsheet and hit "control h". in the find & replace window that pops up, hit "options". in the "find what menu" pull down the "format" menu and click on "choose format from cell"; then go click the player's high rating that you previously found. in the "replace with" menu click format; then click the "pattern" tab; and choose a bright color (so the black numbering contrasts - i usually use yellow). hit "replace all". repeat the same with a low rating, choosing an easily distinguishable color for the low rating pattern.

i usually get an error with whatever players' ratings are right above the categories. so i pick any of them and run the same process described above, with the only difference being, in "replace with", click on the format drop down menu, click "choose format from cell" and then click on a cell with high/low potential, as applicable (doing it just once with any of the error players clears it all up for all of them).

if this still gives you trouble, SM me. the system has worked well for me, at least from a veiwing perspective (don't know that it made my recruiting any better!)

contrasting colors like blue and red or blue and gold would work. I'm also color blind!

Posted by mm_harmon on 5/27/2011 4:32:00 PM (view original):
i bet you're awful at checkers

must have problems at stoplights too....

Posted by backboy13 on 5/27/2011 6:38:00 PM (view original):

Posted by mm_harmon on 5/27/2011 4:32:00 PM (view original):
i bet you're awful at checkers

must have problems at stoplights too....

Just reminded me, I had a friend in high school that would occasionally ask me what color traffic lights were when he was driving.  I found out he was color blind and couldn't see traffic lights well when he didn't have his contacts (or something like that).  He could see them when they chaged, but not well when he was driving along and came upon one that was staying the same color.  Not very comforting. 

I sent these instructions to uglyskunk, but he couldn't get it to work for him, maybe somebody else can confirm it works or can spot if I made a mistake transcribing or has some advice for uglyskunk:

This should allow you to change the colors for potential if you are using Firefox.

First you need to locate the chrome directory under your Firefox profile.  Open Windows Explorer and type %APPDATA% in the Address bar.  Then drill into the Mozilla directory and then the Firefox directory and then the Profiles directory.  Next will be a directory with a random name followed by 'default'.  Drill into that one.  From there you will find the chrome directory.

Copy the existing userContent-example.css file and rename the result userContent.css.  Open the userContent.css file in Notepad and add the following to the end:

@-moz-document url-prefix(http://www.whatifsports.com/hd/) {
     .potential_low {
        color: #FF00FF !important;
     }
     .potential_high {
        color: #FFFF00 !important;
     }
}

Save and close Notepad.  Now restart Firefox.  (You have to be sure Firefox closes, use File->Exit or Ctrl-Q.)  You should see low potential as purple and high potential as yellow now.

forgot to mention that you can't do this with firefox...data / tables don't copy and can't be pasted to excel.