CSII basal profile now visible

The basal profile of the Insulin pump is now visible in the diagram "Glucose - Curve Glucose/time". It is very helpfull to identify the influence of the basal program on the blood glucose.

We hope that users of Insulin pumps can identify sections in their hour profile where the basal program should be modified: increased or decreased basal rate. Step by step these small modifications can be used to optimize the blood glucose level.

Article in c't 4/2008

A good way to support our project is with attention in the media. The well known computer magazine c't reported about Glucosurfer.org in volume 4/2008 on page 210.

We would like to thank Urs Mansman for his supportive article that is read by a broad audience with IT background.

Color blindness: Deuteranopia (Rot-Grün-Blindheit)

Users exhibiting Deuteranopia have a rare case of color blindness. Their perception of red/green is reduced. Which makes the distinction between these two colors difficult. We checked our diagrams with VisCheck and got good results which makes us believe that people with Deuteranopia can read our diagrams without problems:

Glucose and Insulin curve:





Comparison of days:





Trend:

Color blindness: Protanopia (Rotblindheit)

Users exhibiting Protanopia have a rare case of color blindness. Their perception of red/green is reduced. Which makes the distinction between these two colors difficult. We checked our diagrams with VisCheck and got good results which makes us believe that people with Protanopia can read our diagrams without problems:

Glucose and Insulin curve:





Comparison of days:





Trend:

Color blindness: Tritanopia (Blaublindheit)

Users exhibiting Tritanopia have a very rare case of color blindness. Their perception of blue/yellow is reduced. Which makes the distinction between these two colors difficult. We checked our diagrams with VisCheck and got good results which makes us believe that people with Tritanopia can read our diagrams without problems:

Glucose and Insulin curve:





Comparison of days:





Trend:

Tabulator bar is now scalable

Visually impaired users often use the key combinations "Ctrl" plus "+" or "Ctrl" plus "-" to increase or decrease the font size of the page. The key combination "Ctrl" plus "0" will set the default size.

Our tabulator bar was composed of graphical elements. The problem was that these elements are not scalable. This makes them very hard to read for visually impaired users. Therefore we switched the tabulator bar to pure HTML which is fully scalable.

Internet Explorer: max-width of page

One user requested that we should limit the width of the page to make it more readable on wide screen displays. The CSS attribute max-width looked like the prefered way to realize this limitation - it will behave nicely on small screens. But it turned out that this attribute is not supported by the Internet Explorer. After some fruitless approaches we found this solution for our css file:

#mainContent
{
max-width:62em;
width:expression(document.body.clientWidth > 1024?"62em":"auto");
}

The max-width will work on all conforming browsers. The expression for width will only work on the Internet Explorer. The other browsers will ignore this command.

Oh dear, why is it such a problem to adopt and respect newer CSS standards?