Set email client to convert html mails to non formatted plaintext or use a replacement ccs style for websites that allow client side style sheets. Might not be possible in all clients or all webmail clients either. I have worked with seriously dyslexic staff and students and those registered blind. Most use the above user preferential overrides
Sent from my HTC ----- Reply message ----- From: "martin mitchell" <[email protected]> Date: Sat, Nov 13, 2010 2:50 pm Subject: [NetBehaviour] R.I.P Henryk Gorecki To: <[email protected]>, "NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity" <[email protected]> Interesting research being done on dyslexia:- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8128233/Dyslexia-the-secret-of-Da-Vinci-and-Picassos-success.html Guess I'm are mere space cowboy... martin. On 13 Nov 2010, at 13:51, Ruth Catlow wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
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