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<li>the choice of a color as the '''''sole''''' means of communicating essental information to the user; reliance on a color change to a universally recognized page element (a bullet) rather than the provision of a distinctive icon (or other symbolic convention) to convey the intended information -- that the page's content has been updated since the user's last visit -- '''''to''''' the watchlist user...
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<li>consider the obvious problem posed to [[Color_blindness|color blind]] users; a.k.a. users with a "color vision deficiency" to use the current medical/scientific term for the range of conditions traditionally labelled "color-blindness"... the "greeness" of the bullet will '''''not''''' be perceptible to users with [[monochromacy]] (also known as "total color blindness"), [[achromatopsia]] and [[Color_blindness#Red.E2.80.93green_color_blindness|red-green color-blindness]]... additionally, users with [[tritanopia]] and [[tritanomaly]] experience great difficulty discriminating between blue and green hues and may not, therefore, perceive the "green bullet" as "green" -- a situation exacerbated by the fact that the default <code>list-item-style</code> for unordered lists in Wikipedia
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<li>this is a clear, obvious and inexcusable violation of the [[World_Wide_Web_Consortium|W3C]]'s [[Web Content Accessibility Guidelines]] and [[Web_Accessibility_Initiative#Authoring_Tools_Accessibility_Guidelines_.28ATAG.29|Authoring Tools Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG)]];</li>
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