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One school district I worked for a long time ago used to label backup tapes with color codes. This is a bad idea in general, but the real issue was the official complaints:

Lemon — suggests that the system is of poor quality, or substandard.

Black — racist.

Brown — also racist.

Pink — too girlie for straight male staff.

And so on.

Eventually they had to change the system because this went all the way up to the minister of education.

”They’re just colors of the rainbow Karen! No, not the gay one!”



I've been told I wasn't allowed to color code anything in a UI I worked on because "someone might be living with color vision deficiency".

Not that we have to also provide an alternative for people who can't use the color coding, but we can't use color coding at all.

The world is full of people with good intentions and bad ideas.


> I've been told I wasn't allowed to color code anything in a UI I worked on because "someone might be living with color vision deficiency".

Refuse to do GUI at all - surely terminal is better for blind people.


Refuse to write the program entirely. It's ableist against people too unintelligent to use computers.




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