>The Interface Hall of Shame (http://www.iarchitect.com/shame.htm) warns about any sort of hard-coded colors for a couple of reasons: 1) in other cultures, peoples' mental color associations are different

It would be straightforward to put my color choices in my system table (SYSTAB). If I had done that, would it satisfy this stated concern?


>and 2) some people have different types of color-blindness.

I can't see this as a concern. To the color-blind user some boxes would appear to have the same color. That's not fatal because the color is only a hint anyway. Why deprive the other 99%?


Peter