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The actual banner on the validation results ("This page is|is not valid [whatever]") is the most important item on the page and should be RIGHT AT THE TOP, not located under the "Revalidate" fieldset. I'll only want to revalidate if my page is invalid, in the first place, and in the second place DON'T MAKE ME THINK. Give me the results at the very top. On the plus side, you've gotten rid of those awful blue and red banner colours, the latter of which looked even worse with the hyperlinks given to the (X)HTML specifications. Note that the pale-orange and pale-green colours may be hard to distinguish for some colourblind people, which might be less of an issue if the type were of higher contrast. Suggest darker type.
(In reply to comment #0) > The actual banner on the validation results >... should be RIGHT AT THE TOP Took care of this while bringing back the number of errors. The big banner still is behind the revalidate stuff (as it was before, even though the revalidate controls were not given in non-verbose mode), but the first info on the page now states whether validation passed, and the number of errors. This will be in the next beta. > Note that the pale-orange > and pale-green colours may be hard to distinguish for some colourblind people, > which might be less of > an issue if the type were of higher contrast. Suggest darker type. Note that the "new" colors were chosen by a deuteranopic person, but indeed we haven't had them checked against all types of color blindness yet. Marking as fixed, reopen if the solution is not satisfactory. Thanks.