Hi Martin, You raise an interesting issue.
Achieving equal access for everyone through the application of web standards is not straightforward. Firstly, of course, there is no one kind of visual impairment and many different strategies are suggested for making information accessible to people.While you request black text on white background "many dyslexic readers are particularly sensitive to the brightness of text on a pure white background. This can cause the words to appear to move around and to blur together. This difficulty can be avoided if pure white is not used for the page background color." http://www.dyslexia-parent.com/mag35.html It turns out that different people have different access needs. Then there is a lot of dogma (in the Nielson school of web standards) that privileges more textually focused people (proposing set column widths, text sizes and colours, standard link colours etc) over those of us that find content more accessible if it is arranged more contextually and presented with images and other forms of content. Then when artists take audio, visuals, text and interactivity of browser content as their media and context for expression and exploration it becomes impossible (and undesirable) to impose a standard. Like insisting on a particular frame size for a painting or a format for an installation. But I don't think this is what you are talking about. The best approach I guess is for everyone to attempt to stay patient and good humoured and say what we need. best wishes, Utopian Ruth -----Original Message----- From: martin mitchell <[email protected]> Reply-to: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity <[email protected]> To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] R.I.P Henryk Gorecki Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 12:56:55 +0000 Has anyone thought of the visual consequences for visually impaired people, blue type on such a yellow background is very difficult for me to read, daft as the previous grey background. Think of of disability web standards they do exist, for an artists/creatives email site to display such behaviour is ridiculous, please have plain white background with black type. martin... On 13 Nov 2010, at 12:39, marc garrett wrote: > Hi Fung-Lin, > > Much Thanks... > > Here's the original link http://tinyurl.com/24zqlu8 > > marc > > > > R.I.P Henryk Gorecki > > http://www.mutanteggplant.com/vitro-nasu/2010/11/12/r-i-p-henryk-gorecki/ > > > > F.L. > > _______________________________________________ > > NetBehaviour mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
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