Time for Daz to do something about product accessibility

johndoe_36eb90b0

I'll keep this short -- I am visually impaired (weak form of color blindness, can see them fine on larger surfaces, less so on small patches).

There are so many PAs out there creating hairs and clothing and then creating color presets named Color 01, Color 02, Color 03, ... Color 70... well you get the idea.

I find that most unhelpful and even infuriating.

I understand that they are probably using some template or tool to create those color presets by just varying diffuse color in it and changing the file name by +1.

If they can't include real color name in the preset name, then at least including hex RGB value would be way more helpful than just 01, 02, 03, etc.

I propose that Daz starts rejecting PA submissions to the store if they have this people with disabilities unfriendly color preset naming scheme.

Thanks for listening.

frank0314

That shouldn't be an issue with the newest Daz products coming out. All user facing files are required to be descriptive now.

Richard Haseltine

I am in the same boat and used to moan about it frequently.

DrunkMonkeyProductions

While i'm not color blind, i do understand the frustration of the lack of standards in naming, placement,thumbnails, etc. in DS.

What I do, instead of waiting on DS to release something that may or may not meet my particular needs, is to just rename files, create new presets and thumbnails, use a custom directory layout, and extensive use of link files.

It's a lot of work, especially if you're a total organization freak like me, but well worth it , imho.

 

As for Frank0314's note about ds requiring 'more descriptive' files, i'm dreading the wall of text that would be necessary to address every possble use case, or the just as useless file names as we have now.

Red doesn't always mean red.

 

murgatroyd314

frank0314 said:

That shouldn't be an issue with the newest Daz products coming out. All user facing files are required to be descriptive now.

It isn't helping as much as you'd think. One recent hair product has such "descriptive" color names as "Kimberly", "Schooner", "William", and "Eagle". 

frank0314

murgatroyd314 said:

frank0314 said:

That shouldn't be an issue with the newest Daz products coming out. All user facing files are required to be descriptive now.

It isn't helping as much as you'd think. One recent hair product has such "descriptive" color names as "Kimberly", "Schooner", "William", and "Eagle". 

I'm just the messenger. It may take a couple of months to start noticing. Packs being released today could've been submitted 2 months ago and this just started.

johndoe_36eb90b0

DrunkMonkeyProductions said:

What I do, instead of waiting on DS to release something that may or may not meet my particular needs, is to just rename files...

That's assuming you can identify the color from the thumbnail -- I most often can't and it's infuriating.

 

Since I am a software engineer I have even written an app for Windows which sits in the tray and shows an overlay with the color name at the top of the screen for the color under mouse cursor as well as how much does that color differ (dE) from the named color it has in the database.

The problem is, those names aren't much better either. What with names like "3AM in Shibuya", etc.

Also, even if I identify the primary color I still don't know the author's intent behind it -- is blueish color supposed to be blonde or blue hair? The only proper solution is for them to name those colors properly to begin with. Instead of making 70 presets named Color 01 to Color 70, I'd prefer they made just 10 properly named ones -- quailty instead of quantity, because this isn't (or at least shouldn't be) a flea market.