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This is interesting because it proves something to me about my vision and visual comprehension.

The "Grid" view is absolutely fine for me. The "Table" view is unworkable.

I have a lot of trouble scanning across lines like this, where I will lose which line I am on (when my glance shifts). This, I have realised, is due to the tendency to shift eye dominance slightly across to the right. (My eyes are subtly misaligned so I have some prism correction; a recent change to my prism correction has improved this situation for me.)

This particular presentation has the indicator line in the low/high column placed so that it makes this accidental row shifting (which is always upwards) even worse.

For me, the line graph would be better off either as the background to the cell, or towards the bottom of the cell. And the rows would need zebra-striping, subtly.

The lesson from me, a fast and able reader who is not vision- or cognitively-impaired is: don't assume that you can put stuff across wide lines in tables like this. Provide affordances so people can hold onto the "row" as they scan across. The keyline separators are not enough, and the hover-over background change is not usable on a touch device.

As it is, when I encounter stuff like this, I often have to un-maximise the window and reduce the window height so I can scroll and use the bottom of the window or the title bar of another one to provide a consistent "edge" to see the data on. If I am using my iPad, I have been known to use a piece of paper or card.




I think your trouble with the table has far more to do with the design (specifically color) choices made by the author.

1. You mentioned this in passing, but I'll repeat for emphasis: The contrast between a hovered/highlighted table row and ones that are not is too low. I have decent eyes and I also have a hard time seeing it.

2. Table rows (and/or columns) should be striped between two or more high contrast colors for better legibility. White, black, white, black for example. This table is all black through and through.

3. The table borders' contrast is way too low, it's hardly even visible. This combined with the singular row/column color makes legibility even worse.

TL;DR: Table itself is actually fine, the colors are terrible.


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