This hasn’t been a huge issue for me until recently, but I might as well mention it, since I won’t be the only one affected.
I’m heavily red-green color blind. About 5% of the male population is. There are a few GUI decisions in Roon that inadvertently cause huge problems.
First, a minor one. Sometimes (very rarely) the “go back to previous page” back-arrow in the upper left fades into oblivion against a light background. I can always find it by blindly waving the cursor around though.
Second, a reasonably major one. The three different colors chosen to signify audio fidelity in the playback stream are (I believe) purple, yellow, and green. For me (MS200 as endpoint) I’m usually purple, unless I’m playing .mp3 in which case I’m either yellow or green – couldn’t begin to tell you which. This is a tough one – assuming you don’t want ‘white’ (a blank button), and black (since it would look like a large dot), it’s actually tough to find three different color choices that work for the afflicted. A blue or purple works (got it), and then something light and sunny (got it), but the 3rd color needs to change into something significantly darker than the current yellow or green, way lighter than black (so no reds, browns, dk greys, etc), yet it can’t be blue, as that is often indistinguishable from purple. Would have to see a few choices “in the flesh” to give feedback.
The fairly serious one, which I just became aware of recently, was that there is red text used somewhere in Roon, and that it (if I recall) signifies something important.
Anyway, I had a concerted look-see in my collection, and was finally (barely) able to ascertain that some of the text may (or may not – hard to tell) be red, as opposed to black. This is really torturous for color-blind readers, as the smaller the swatch of color (and with text we’re talking lines, so it can’t get any smaller), the harder it is to differentiate. The red alternate-color text needs to be changed to something much, much lighter than black (no red, purple, dk blue, brown, dk grey, dk green, etc), yet still be readable and not ugly. A medium blue or grey might work, or maybe a medium/light green or orange (I’d have to see).
None of this is killing me at the moment, but if you’ve got ~200 posters here, then there should be about 8-10 of us in the same boat…
OK – back to your regularly scheduled programming.