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by shooly 39 days ago
Red/green is the most common way to show bad/good, error/success, etc.

Using any other color scheme would just confuse everyone instead of only colorblind people... how would that be any better?

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White with black text for success and black with white text for failure. People would figure it out.
So as I said instead of confusing a minority of people, we confuse everyone instead?
There are always creative ways to present data. Dismissing the needs of a minority of people just because we don't share their visual impairment is lazy, and we can do better.