On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 17:24 +0000, Daniel Ruoso wrote: > Sex, 2007-03-23 às 12:02 -0500, Shaun McCance escreveu: > ... > > > The problem is mainly with web > > > content, when you have charts with colorblind-unfriendly colors. At this > > > time, the user is supposed to just turn the filter on on that moment, > > > choosing which filter fits best on that image, and after reading the > > > image, turn the filter off again. > > We certainly have great accessibility inside the desktop, > > and I think it's a great idea to make tools to compensate > > for the bad accessibility in places we can't control. > > What worries me, though, is the discoverability of this > > feature. As a color-blind user, if I encountered some > > pie chart on the web with crappy colors, it would never > > occur to me to open the screen magnifier. > > The technology is cool. Now we need to shake out the > > user interaction. > > Yeah... I was talking to Carlos about this, and there's one important > thing about it, usually the people who would use the colorblind filters > would not need the zooming, so it probably don't make sense to make its > management gnome-mag-oriented.
Here is the discussion about this: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-accessibility-list/2006-October/msg00040.html This illustrate the point that colorblind filters are also usefull in magnifiers: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-accessibility-list/2006-October/msg00055.html > > Probably just creating a gnome-applet that does what test/control-client > (inside gnome-mag source) does, but being colorblind-oriented would be > enough. > > > > Again, this filter is not meant to help usage of gnome applications > > > itself, because gnome is already colorblind-friendly. We're talking here > > > mainly about web content. To show that, I've taken some usefull > > > screenshots using vertical split in gnome-mag [1]. > > > [1] http://people.debian.org/~ruoso/colorblind/ > > I can see the numbers! > > /me understand this feeling ;) > > daniel > > _______________________________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - Sempre a melhor opção para você! Experimente já e veja as novidades. http://br.yahoo.com/mailbeta/tudonovo/ _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
