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  1. Jira Data Center
  2. JRASERVER-61773

Priority icons on new projects are not accessible for red-green colour blind users

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    • Severity 3 - Minor
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      Atlassian Update – 10 January 2018

      Hi everyone,

      We’ll be shipping a new set of priority icons with Jira 8.0 soon. In the next coming days you will be able to check them out here on our public Jira instance, together with other features planned for Jira 8.0.

      For now, you can compare the new icons with the old ones in the attached image:

      To read about other capabilities we’ve added in Jira Software 8.0, or to download a beta version, have a look at Jira 8.0 Beta Release Notes.

      Katarzyna Derenda
      Product manager, Jira Server

       

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      Atlassian Update – 10 January 2018 Hi everyone, We’ll be shipping a new set of priority icons with Jira 8.0 soon. In the next coming days you will be able to check them out here on our public Jira instance, together with other features planned for Jira 8.0. For now, you can compare the new icons with the old ones in the attached image: To read about other capabilities we’ve added in Jira Software 8.0, or to download a beta version, have a look at Jira 8.0 Beta Release Notes . Katarzyna Derenda Product manager, Jira Server  

      NOTE: This bug report is for JIRA Server. Using JIRA Cloud? See the corresponding bug report.

      Summary

      The default priority icons on new projects are not accessible for red-green colour blind users.

      The icons used for priority are green, orange and red, with no shape to distinguish them for a colour blind user.
      The "medium", "high" and "highest" icons look the same to me from a normal viewing distance, and I need to get close to the screen to tell them apart (I'm colour deficient, the 12% of all men type).

      The "low" and "lowest" icons look the same colour, but they are at least pointing down.

      On other types of projects, they have either a double arrow head, or a dotted "stem" so that the colour is not the only indication of priority.

      Steps to reproduce

      1. Create a Business ==> Project Management type project. (or a Software project)
      2. Create a "Task" issue.
      3. Notice the priority icon and the available options for it by clicking on the field in the view issue page.

      Expected Results.

      It's possible to distinguish all priority options without relying on their colour as an indication.

      Actual Results

      It's not possible to distinguish all priority options without relying on their colour as an indication.

      Workaround

      Configure a different set of icons for each new project affected by this bug.

        1. Old vs New priority icons@2x.png
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