On Friday 12 October 2007, suseROCKS wrote: > On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 16:37 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
[snipped] > Websites are also causing problems these days. Seems like everyone > wants to go for the cool factor, which today is white background with > grey fonts. More and more visually-impaired people are complaining > about this. But I'm going off-point here a bit. I've had to take drastic measures when it comes to displaying web pages. My approach ain't beautiful, but it works. No grey fonts on white background here... I uploaded three screenshots to show how I've set up my 1280x1024 LCD. I suppose there are easier ways to upload stuff... but here we go. KMail: https://secure.storegate.com/user/share.aspx?id=c58b4956-384d-4da7-8b44- 9097e38b6777 Firefox: https://secure.storegate.com/user/share.aspx?id=5485bcf3-a89e-4705-be22- 698aff5684cb Konqueror, only the window, ran usually at this size and not maximised. For more fluent reading of longer passages of text (lines not too long.) https://secure.storegate.com/user/share.aspx?id=d2a96bca-64f8-4406-82de- 911fd409c599 Firefox used for sites requiring all the screen real estate -- Konqueror runs on virtual desktop 1 and Firefox on 3, konsole on 2 and KMail and Alpine on 4. Why? Well, they've always, or at least for a few years, been on those desktops... and my brain thus expects them to be there. And that is why I can't use Windows at the university, for example: I'm constantly pressing ctrl+3 or ctrl+4 when going for Firefox or email. Not to mention the awfully contrastless colours on XP. White text on light blue? Can't read that text even if I wanted to) KDE is for me accessible enough after some tweaking. There are, of course, many accessibility and colours related bugs on KDE, and I've been thinking of starting filing more of them. I just have a feeling they're not prioritised very high... An interesting side note. Since I have to use large font sizes, the issues with font rendering are quite obvious. On SUSE 9.3 I had fantastic font rendering: antialised, yet sharp even at larger sizes. Newer versions of freetype make things so freakingly bold at larger sizes it is almost crazy. Unfortunately, that version of freetype won't work with 10.2. I'm running 2.3.4 srpm compiled according to some guide on font rendering on openSUSE. 2.3.5 I had to downgrade back to 2.3.4 due it being even worse. If only I could still run 9.3... Regards, Tero Pesonen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
