Analysis of Visibility on Web Color Sets by Self-Organizing Maps

Abstract

In this article, we describe about an analysis of fundamental visibility on Web color sets by Self-Organizing Maps (SOM), and an paired comparison test for its training. In recent years, people in many age groups use the Web frequently. However, there are few Web contents in consideration of their accessibilities. Therefore, there are also many pages that are hard to see for people in a specific age group (elderly people). We think that the visibility of the Web will be very important in the near future. As visibility, we focused only on the combination of character and background colors, which is called color sets, among the design-elements of Web contents. In the combination of character and background colors, we conducted the paired comparison test for collecting the standard data of visibility, and analyzed the paired comparison data using the Self-Organization Maps.