Re: Accessibilty module for colorblind people

2006-11-17 Thread Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diógenes
Hi, I don't know if there is a package available for Debian/Ubuntu, but I'm not using these distros anymore, so I created a Slackware package for this library to support my needs. If anyone is interested in this package it can be founded in http://gnome.org/~carlosd Best regards, Carlos. On

Re: Accessibilty module for colorblind people

2006-11-03 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Qui, 2006-11-02 às 23:41 -0200, Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diógenes escreveu: Hi Daniel, Can I plug it here? Could you explaim how the library works? There are docs for this? What can you say about the library? Sure, The library, works creating an instance, and then calling the

Re: Accessibilty module for colorblind people

2006-11-02 Thread Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diógenes
Hi Daniel, Can I plug it here? Could you explaim how the library works? There are docs for this? What can you say about the library? Thanks, Carlos. One way or another, this is my plan. libcolorblind is already an independant project, and will continue to be. I'm just trying to figure out

Re: Accessibilty module for colorblind people

2006-10-12 Thread David Bolter
Possibly some related resources: Color deficiency simulator: http://www.visibone.com/colorblind/ another simulator: http://www.vischeck.com/ Color perception paper: http://www.4colorvision.com/files/colorcontrperf.htm#equations Color tool: http://www.colorfield.com/index.html Example color

Re: Accessibilty module for colorblind people

2006-10-12 Thread David Bolter
Possibly some related resources: Color deficiency simulator: http://www.visibone.com/colorblind/ another simulator: http://www.vischeck.com/ Color perception paper: http://www.4colorvision.com/files/colorcontrperf.htm#equations Color tool: http://www.colorfield.com/index.html Example color

Re: Accessibilty module for colorblind people

2006-10-11 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Ter, 2006-10-10 às 19:03 -0300, Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diógenes escreveu: Since gnopernicus/orca can discover the structure of documents, web pages and windows, this can inform parts of the screen that the filter must be applied. Only to illustrate this idea, think in a web page that

Re: Accessibilty module for colorblind people

2006-10-10 Thread Naveen Kumar
Hi, Here is an useful site which has some useful stuff on colorblindness.http://www.vischeck.com/vischeck/-- Thanks regardsNaveen Kumar Project Engineer Open Source Software Division( http://ossrc.org.in/ )C-DAC Mumbai ( http://www.cdacmumbai.in/ )( http://moebiuscurve.livejournal.com/ )

Re: Accessibilty module for colorblind people

2006-10-10 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Seg, 2006-10-09 às 21:19 -0300, Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diógenes escreveu: Em Ter, 2006-10-10 às 02:01 +0200, Samuel Thibault escreveu: Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diógenes, le Mon 09 Oct 2006 20:56:12 -0300, a écrit : To the others that answeared your question about xorg question in you

Re: Accessibilty module for colorblind people

2006-10-10 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
Daniel Ruoso wrote: I think that these filters could be implemented easily in gnome-mag. Probably Bill and Willie can give more advices about it. The question is that colorblindness filters aren't exactly related to screen magnifier. I'm colorblind, but I don't need a screen magnifier.

Re: Accessibilty module for colorblind people

2006-10-10 Thread Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diógenes
Em Ter, 2006-10-10 às 11:42 +0100, Daniel Ruoso escreveu: Hi. Seg, 2006-10-09 às 20:56 -0300, Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diógenes escreveu: I'm working in add contrast and brightness control over each color component in gnome-mag. After your e-mail I get in doubt about if this is a good

Re: Accessibilty module for colorblind people

2006-10-10 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Ter, 2006-10-10 às 11:09 -0300, Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diógenes escreveu: I think that implement it throw composite management is the easiest way, because the idea in this case is present the screen like you want to the user. Agreed. If don't need the cool effects that can be achieved

Re: Accessibilty module for colorblind people

2006-10-10 Thread Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diógenes
Em Ter, 2006-10-10 às 16:09 +0200, Henrik Nilsen Omma escreveu: Daniel Ruoso wrote: I think that these filters could be implemented easily in gnome-mag. Probably Bill and Willie can give more advices about it. The question is that colorblindness filters aren't exactly related to

Re: Accessibilty module for colorblind people

2006-10-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Thinking twice about it, having gnome-mag do should indeed be quite neat actually. I've played a bit with it, and something like magnifier -v -z 1 --colorblind-mode=type Should be quite fine for most people. Samuel ___ gnome-accessibility-list

Re: Accessibilty module for colorblind people

2006-10-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diógenes, le Tue 10 Oct 2006 11:33:18 -0300, a écrit : Some people would want to use both magnification and a filter. Separate implementations may still be the best option for technical reasons or to have simpler configuration of each. But in that case they should

Re: Accessibilty module for colorblind people

2006-10-10 Thread Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diógenes
Em Ter, 2006-10-10 às 15:27 +0100, Daniel Ruoso escreveu: Ter, 2006-10-10 às 11:09 -0300, Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diógenes escreveu: I think that implement it throw composite management is the easiest way, because the idea in this case is present the screen like you want to the user.

Re: Accessibilty module for colorblind people

2006-10-10 Thread Bill Haneman
Hi Daniel: Colorblindness is certainly one of the more common issues that impact the usability of our visual interfaces. It's great to have you onboard to help make our desktops more usable. Enhancements that support colorblindness usually work in one of two ways; firstly, themes are

Re: Accessibilty module for colorblind people

2006-10-10 Thread Bill Haneman
Hi Henrik: What he said You and Carlos put this very well. I agree with you both that this sounds like a great thing to add to gnome-mag. By the way, Carlos has recently done some very nice work to enable fullscreen magnification without requiring two X screens, so based on this new work

RE: Accessibilty module for colorblind people

2006-10-10 Thread Jason Grieves
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Haneman Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 4:08 PM To: Henrik Nilsen Omma Cc: gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org Subject: Re: Accessibilty module for colorblind people Hi Henrik: What he said You and Carlos put this very

Re: Accessibilty module for colorblind people

2006-10-10 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Ter, 2006-10-10 às 15:57 -0400, Bill Haneman escreveu: Hi Daniel: Hi... First of all, I'd like to thank you for you reply... Enhancements that support colorblindness usually work in one of two ways; firstly, themes are provided to select a color and contrast environment that suits a

Re: Accessibilty module for colorblind people

2006-10-10 Thread Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diógenes
Hi, After reading the last messages of the thread an idea come in my mind. Since gnopernicus/orca can discover the structure of documents, web pages and windows, this can inform parts of the screen that the filter must be applied. Only to illustrate this idea, think in a web page that contains a

Accessibilty module for colorblind people

2006-10-09 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Hi, I am colorblind. This problem doesn't cause much trouble, so it's not something that really makes the computer useless without an accessibility software. It would be better if everyone could take that into consideration before drawing a chart, but unfortunally that isn't always true.

Re: Accessibilty module for colorblind people

2006-10-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, I actually had the same idea, but didn't have the exact knowledge of colorblind issues. This would probably be a great tool for developpers to try it! Samuel ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org

Re: Accessibilty module for colorblind people

2006-10-09 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Seg, 2006-10-09 às 10:11 +0200, Samuel Thibault escreveu: I actually had the same idea, but didn't have the exact knowledge of colorblind issues. This would probably be a great tool for developpers to try it! I already have the filter library with 8 functional filters. The source is avaiable

Re: Accessibilty module for colorblind people

2006-10-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diógenes, le Mon 09 Oct 2006 20:56:12 -0300, a écrit : To the others that answeared your question about xorg question in you first e-mail, why it's better to work on Xorg server than GTK+? Because there are a _lot_ of applications that don't use GTK+. Samuel

Re: Accessibilty module for colorblind people

2006-10-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diógenes, le Mon 09 Oct 2006 21:19:10 -0300, a écrit : If the filters are implemented in gnome-mag there is no problem that others applications doesn't use GTK+, because the image capture and manipulation will be done entirely throw gnome-mag. Indeed, but not many