+Briarwoodhill Clan Posted December 6, 2016 Share Posted December 6, 2016 Went to geocaching.com map page tonight and just about died. New unfriendly icons! These icons have the same major flaw of most mobile device applications, they totally leave us color blind people in the dark. The unique shapes of the old icons made it very easy to tell the cache type regardless of color. Most colors selected before were unique enough to enhance the shape, at least for some levels of color blindness. Now, they all blend together. Not only are they all dots, but the color selections are no longer unique enough so multiple icons appear the same at a quick glance. Very frustrating to take a huge leap backwards in useability!! When looking for a new phone I actually avoided Android based because none of the geocaching apps were color blind friendly compared to GeoBucket. Is there any way to get the old icons back for us that like/need them? Link to comment
+noncentric Posted December 6, 2016 Share Posted December 6, 2016 The new icons were announced in the latest Release Notes thread. That might be a good place to discuss the issue of color blindness and what color blind cachers would need in order to be able to differentiate the cache types. Link to comment
+Briarwoodhill Clan Posted December 6, 2016 Author Share Posted December 6, 2016 Thanks! I posted on the other thread. Link to comment
Keystone Posted December 6, 2016 Share Posted December 6, 2016 Thank you to noncentric for directing the OP to the Release Notes thread! I'm closing this duplicate. Link to comment
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