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Re: where is the download page?

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Not only that, using color to communicate anything is a violation of
accessibility standards.  Section 508 of the Americans With Disabilities
states that specifically.  That is one of 16 technical points along with
the Preamble web designers already ought have known for the last few
years.  On Mon, 17 Aug 2020, Greg Wooledge wrote:

> Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2020 15:25:26
> From: Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: where is the download page?
> Resent-Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2020 19:25:45 +0000 (UTC)
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 02:56:45PM -0400, Lars Blizard wrote:
> > where is the download page?
>
> https://www.debian.org/
>
> has a link that says "Getting Debian", and it also has a green download
> icon thingy embedded in the huge banner.
>
> (I've told people before that putting important things in web banners is
> a bad idea, because decades of the web have trained us not to look at
> web banners.)
>
>

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Re: where is the download page? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-08-17 21:30 +0200
  Re: where is the download page? Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2020-08-17 21:50 +0200
  Re: where is the download page? Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2020-08-17 22:10 +0200
    Re: where is the download page? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2020-08-18 03:10 +0200
    Re: where is the download page? Kenneth Parker <sea7kenp@gmail.com> - 2020-08-18 08:30 +0200

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