I've just received my Council Tax demand from Southend on Sea Borough Council where the bill is bad news BUT they have also included a glossy booklet in the package advertising local exhibitions and events.
Why do the arty-farty types believe that everyone can read small light blue text in the thinnest of fonts on a white background? Why do they believe that white text on a light blue background is readable?
Ah. scan it and then play around with the gamma.
These days its very cool to be an incompetemt, but right thinking Lefty...
I strongly agree. Our local theatre is exactly the same. Its like hey, look at the range of colours I can have, I'll use all of them! I guess you could get them on accessible versions of their service information under equality duty. Brian
because they've never seen it printed out. It looks fine on the screen.
And they probably haven't a clue how to set up their computer to match the available printer colours.
As they used to say when DTP first appeared
"DTP lets any fool make artwork. And they do."
Most people can read any colour. I'm sure specsavers can help you.
Which words are you having trouble reading?
Have you contacted whatever group or department had that printed and pointed out that the law requires them to use easily read, contrasting colours on the information they send out? They may (unlikely) listen to you.
At the same time you could point out that the information could be conveyed just as well in black and white on fairly low quality paper, instead of wasting money.
SteveW
All of the ones where they have fiddled with colours.
No many people are dazzled. One problem is gamma. On a screen its often easier to read closely matched colours with the same luminance, but when you try to print that on paper which emits no light of its own, the contrast has to be squashed down, and here is where the trouble comes in. many food packages fall into the same trap. Indeed it poses issues for reading aids like video magnifiers and text recognition software as well as those with poor sight like cataracts or macular degeneration. Brian
You mean a left thinking righty.
A right thinking Lefty would have inclusivity first and foremost in their mind.
The design was outsourced to the lowest bidder, who didn't care that much.
At last, my local council has started e-mailing the council tax bill (so no fat envelope with one A4 of council tax bil then wedges of glossy marketing brochures). The council tax bill came as a pdf attachment on the e-mail, which is fine ..... but no encryption, no pdf password, not locked (so very easily editable) .... hmmmm.... they got an e-mail pointing out a few things they might want to look into for next year.
So why would it actually matter if someone else can see your council tax bill? I suppose they could pay it for you! :-)
Councils publish the amount per band, per parish. The valuation office publish the band per property, That only leaves discounts or reductions...
Ay? I still don't see why it matters.
One might not wish to publish the fact that one lives alone (at least with no other normal adults). Or the converse.
Tell me which colours, as I can read everything easily.
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