[cap-talk] Firefox breaks the principle of identifiability

[John Halleck]

On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Mike Linksvayer wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 05:11:27PM -0600, Ka-Ping Yee wrote:
> > It seems feasible to me to choose (or design) a font that would make
> > all of the 7-bit printable ASCII characters clearly distinguishable.
> > For domain recognition we don't even need all the characters -- just
> > the letters, digits, hyphen, and period.
> > 
> > This does not seem feasible to me for a character set as large as
> > Unicode, and flatly impossible for Unicode in particular because
> > Unicode includes characters that are *defined* to be invisible or
> > to combine with other characters to yield perfect homographs.
> 
> Render non 7-bit printable ASCII characters in a different color.  Or
> with a different color background.

  Ah... so only the colorblind have trouble.
  Doesn't seem very ADA friendly to me... :)

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