On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 10:03:36AM +0000, MJ Ray wrote: > Alex Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I suspect strongly that free software is great for people who have > > difficulty with data input/control. I suspect we suck in varying amounts > > for those who have difficulty seeing*. I would be interested in hearing > > other people's experiences in this area. > > I think my most common bugfix is correcting cases where some > designer has done something "stylish" that either makes part > of the user interface invisible to people with colour vision > problems, or makes a control too hard to use with motor control > problems.
One thing which is worth checking is the use of non-standard colours which get 'dithered' on displays with low colour resolution. I had that with a friend's website, she had used what was (to her on a display with 16-bit colour) a high contrast combination of pink background and blue text -- when I looked at it on a display with an 8-bit colour depth the browser dithered red and blue to get the pink and as a result the blue text became fuzzy and unreadable. (She was most embarassed since she worked at the time for RNIB and her website was in other ways totally accessible!) > I've seen people using blinux and emacspeak http://www.leb.net/blinux/ > - what else is out there? I will ask some of my friends with visual problems what they use now, I know one used to use MSDOS with lynx and a text to speech module. Chris C _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
