Advisories as Cautions (Boeing airplanes)?

[Adsto]

Have been looking at cockpit pictures of Boeing EICAS airplanes (777, 767, 747-400) and noticed that EICAS advisory messages are the same colour as caution messages. The only difference appears to be that advisories are indented a little bit (one space?) or have a sideways chevron in front of them '>'.

Does this confuse pilots? Other than when they first appear on the EICAS, is it difficult to tell them apart? Could you under-react to a caution (thinking it is an advisory), or over-react to an advisory (thinking it's a caution)?

Seems strange to have them the same color, font, etc. Does it get the thumbs up or down?

Any related comments appreciated.

[jim_pilot]

Having flown B767s and B747-400 for many years I can say that I have never seen or heard of anyone mis-interpretting a "carreted" (>) message.
Reason being, you read what EICAS throws up at you.
The system has been very cleverly designed.

[LGB]

Another way to help distinguish between the two, (apart from chevron/indent and reading the text as to what is wrong):

Advisories have no master caution aural warning, as cautions have.

Warnings have, of course, master warning aural alert.

On classics, there is no EICAS, so not a problem there :-)