Re: Help text for message buttons
I don't understand where Joe is talking about. Can someone lead me through the issue
Steve, That is NOT the main issue... just a system/mind fluke...
Here is the Main issue:
Basically, what I am saying does not just pertain to the POPUP window upgrade, but to the whole website.
There are places where Text wants to be displayed to denote Primary (unread, important) information, but Secondary (read, not as important) information. What I am describing is the Secondary display... The shade of color is SO Lightly Gray that it is hard (for my 73 old eyes) to see and read the text that is almost NOT THERE.
Yes, I know that I can increase the size of the font, highlight/select, make things BOLDER, etc. so I can read it... In the past (& now) I have been doing just that... BUT, I'm getting tired of doing that.
(Popular Woodworking was doing the same thing in their email & blog entries... until I brought it to their attention). In this last case, I clicked the POPUP icon,
while trying Quick Reply, got the popup window & my pics... I clicked a pic... saw nothing happen... I clicked another one... NOTHING (that I saw)...
edit: I tried it again later, as a plain "Reply" instead of "Quick Reply" and the text color WAS BLACK and easy to read... Very light gray in the Quick Reply window.
Later, after I had made the posting, I noticed, after looking real hard, that there were entries made in the Reply window that I missed because I couldn't see it.
All I am proposing, is to darken the light gray font so there is a little more contrast to the white background; right now, the very light gray, to me, is almost not even there.
For an Example solution: If the regular Primary text is Blue, make the Secondary text unbolded Black... something different, but readable by experienced eyes. :gar-Bi
Like right now, the text that I'm typing is easy to read, unbolded, Black... This shade of text would work out just fine in the other Secondary Text locations on the website.
I hope I have made it clear now.
For me, using FF 3.5 on Linux, I see all the help text on all the buttons, so I'm probably able to see whats missing.
I'm using the Opera browser... I like it better than FF & MSIE... There is something different in the coding of the New Mouseover POPUP Icon Help Text and the Other Icons... It is the only one that works for me. Most of them, I know; some of them, I don't know what they are.
Thank you for listening.