Avoid using color alone for emphasis*

Suggestion Report

Avoid using color alone for emphasis.

Why Is This Important?

Some students may not be able to see color or view the color correctly. As such, it is best to make sure that the color is bolded or has other characters nearby that indicate the same sort of importance as the color.

Cause Of Result

To get this result, you must have colored text with sufficient color contrast that is not bold or italicized via the style attribute.

Examples

Incorrect Example

This text is important!

Correct Example

This text is important!

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False Positives

There are three kinds of false positives you can have for this result.

  • The text is not colored to create emphasis.
  • Other characters like * accompany the text that is colored to create emphasis.
    • If you use this technique, be sure to clearly spell out what the * or other character(s) mean.
  • The color text is bold or italicized with the Rich Content Editor's Bold or Italics button, which creates the necessary visual effect with code that UDOIT does not look for.
    • This will hopefully be fixed soon.

How To Fix It


U FIX IT! Button

Within UDOIT, if you click the U FIX IT! button, you will be provided with a Make this text bold and a Make this text italicized checkbox. Use the View the source of this issue link in the UDOIT report to access the Preview and verify that the text has not already been made bold or italicized or has not been accompanied by additional identifying characters. If it has not, check one of the checkboxes (bold is preferred over italics as italics are a little harder to read) and click Submit. UDOIT will then apply the changes.

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Last Updated January 2017.
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