Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: xscreensaver
I have set xscreensaver to switch between a large number of the
preinstalled screensavers.
My girl friend, a heavy sufferer of migraine, has observed that a large
number of these screensavers trigger a migraine attack in her if she
doesn't look away immediately. It's especially screensavers involving
small, flickering geometric changes with shifting colours.
This makes standard installations a bit hostile towards sufferers of
migraine.
Proposed action: The default selection of screensavers to switch between
is limited to screensavers which don't trigger a seizure in migraine
sufferers.
Maybe some sort of warning should be inserted in the description of
those which do.
I suppose contact could be made to some organisation lige
migraine.org.uk to ask them if they perceive this to be a problem which
ought to be addressed.
** Affects: xscreensaver (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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Disability hostile: many of the pre-installed screensavers trigger migraine
https://launchpad.net/bugs/69523
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