The Philosophy of Colored Scrollbars
Some thoughtful opinions expressed at a DynamicDrive forum post about custom colored scrollbars using css:
rohis: I've heard a lot more people cumpliment how nice a website looks with a colored scroll bar than how violated they feel that their scroll bar on one specific page isn't gray.
Twey: Yes, but it can be unpleasant: if the user is colour-blind, for example, and uses a high-contrast chrome theme, then can't see the scrollbars, it would reflect badly on your site.
wiklendt: Goodness. If the colour blind person can't see the scroll bar after the web designer changed it to match the colours in the website, what's the chance they'll see the website itself? By reason, then, wouldn't they see nothing at all, let alone the scroll bar?
Not to mention there is a varied degree of intensity with colour blindness. some see a spectrum change, others don't see certain colours at either end of the spectrum, some flat out don't see certain colours in the middle of their spectrum itself.
A web designer can't possibly cater for all these possibilities.
Am I to understand, me twey that you are so proficient and purist in your code that you cater for the blind? There is code, you know, that certain programs turn the data into speech for the sight impaired. Also, there are people who still use IE2, NS2, or 16 color monitors, or 480 x 320 pixel screen resolutions - should us designers make all of our websites black and white default non framed non flashed non coloured non css'd non interesting just so that all people in the world can view it?
besides, it's not just the one scroll bar that's effected in the change of colours, it can sometimes be right inside the site if the designer has chosen to use frames for that site (inline or otherwise). to have a nice lilac and purple colour scheme throughout only to be interrupted by an ugly default coloured scroll bar is almost an insult.
rohis: I've heard a lot more people cumpliment how nice a website looks with a colored scroll bar than how violated they feel that their scroll bar on one specific page isn't gray.
Twey: Yes, but it can be unpleasant: if the user is colour-blind, for example, and uses a high-contrast chrome theme, then can't see the scrollbars, it would reflect badly on your site.
wiklendt: Goodness. If the colour blind person can't see the scroll bar after the web designer changed it to match the colours in the website, what's the chance they'll see the website itself? By reason, then, wouldn't they see nothing at all, let alone the scroll bar?
Not to mention there is a varied degree of intensity with colour blindness. some see a spectrum change, others don't see certain colours at either end of the spectrum, some flat out don't see certain colours in the middle of their spectrum itself.
A web designer can't possibly cater for all these possibilities.
Am I to understand, me twey that you are so proficient and purist in your code that you cater for the blind? There is code, you know, that certain programs turn the data into speech for the sight impaired. Also, there are people who still use IE2, NS2, or 16 color monitors, or 480 x 320 pixel screen resolutions - should us designers make all of our websites black and white default non framed non flashed non coloured non css'd non interesting just so that all people in the world can view it?
besides, it's not just the one scroll bar that's effected in the change of colours, it can sometimes be right inside the site if the designer has chosen to use frames for that site (inline or otherwise). to have a nice lilac and purple colour scheme throughout only to be interrupted by an ugly default coloured scroll bar is almost an insult.
Emphasis mine.
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