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And super easy for at least this colorblind individual to parse.

I'm off to see if I can get Greasemonkey to swap out the icons for icons like these on the AWS status page.



Outage is a red triangle for anyone wondering. Apple doesn't show non-current states in their legend.

There's a screenshot in the comments of https://www.macrumors.com/2020/09/29/apple-icloud-services-i...


Here are the four possibilities:

https://imgur.com/a/3Cl5567


Sadly, an individual on an older device who is browsing with JS disabled for accessibility reasons (else most of the web freezes up the device and takes down the web browser) is not able to access this basic information.


Have you ever checked out uMatrix? It's a chrome plugin that lets you control which javascript can run on a page (and allow some by default across the web based on where it's loaded from).


That's a nice idea, but it's not a solution. The real solution is to make content accessible, rather than depending on JavaScript. Apple has terrible form in this regard.


Pragmatically, I think that ship sailed a decade+ ago. You're not wrong though...


developement of uMatrix is no more.


There is a fork 'nuTensor' with stated intention of continuing development/maintenance (with a Firefox focus):

https://github.com/geekprojects/nuTensor


uMatrix has been discontinued.


It still works though. I realize it's not a perfect solution, but I was just trying to offer another option.


does not work on ios 7.




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