Planned Alternate colours for selected verses

Blue seems to be the easiest for me to see. Thanks!

 

I think red is fine and blue too, but I rather think they should be bolder so they stand out more.
Blue could be mistaken for a hyperlink, too.

Strong, dark red seems to me to be a better option.

 

Appreciate your reply, Matt. Things I hadn't taken into account there (a long time since I designed a website long before apps arrived!).

I don't know how difficult these things are to implement, but the JWLibrary Bible 'greys out' unselected text leaving the text selection in its normal state. There are problems even with this solution when one chooses another scripture, though.
I'll give it more thought.

 

Perhaps other colour blind users didn't even know they were a different colour! I'm colour blind and I wouldn't have noticed had I not read this topic. Now I know, I can see a slight difference between selected verses and non selected verses, but I don't think I would have picked it up on my own.

My preference is always to be given the option of selecting my own colours - even for highlighting text.

In Windows it would be as easy as using a variable and calling a colour picker from a common dll, but I'm not that familiar with programming for iOS so I don't know how difficult it would be to implement.

I find this an issue with just about every app that lets you mark-up, or underline, text. Even with JW Library I'm basically down to two colours. The first two colours are way too similar for me to distinguish between on an iPad screen, the blue is good, but the red is too dark. The only time I use red is when I'm on the mixer and need to identify the WT paragraphs associated with illustrations to be shown on the TV screens. I just highlight the paragraph number in red.

 

Sorry Matt. Ive just seen this tread today.

For me the current color is working fine (it is not very modern, but works. Same as the colors of the picker )
But i also can see blue or bold alternatives. I would test it...

 

What i really like to see is and alternate background color like a bright brown like other epub readers

 

There is a system level fix for this.

1. Open Settings
2. Go to “General/Accessability/Display Accommodations"
3. Go to "Colour Filters" and turn ON
4. If you know your what Colour Blindness you have, select it from the options. You can change the intensity using the slider at the bottom of the screen. If you don’t know what you have, select an option and test it by doing an online colourblindness test.

I’m Protanopia. Even though the colours look horrible, I passed the colourblindness test and am also able to distinguish between all four highlight colours in JW Library. Plus I can easily see the selected verse in Equipd.

 

I think bold would help those that are color blind. I really appreciate that the selected text is a different color than the rest.