Re: add libcolorblind as an external dependencie

[Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diógenes <cerdiogenes yahoo com br>]

On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 17:24 +0000, Daniel Ruoso wrote:
> Sex, 2007-03-23 às 12:02 -0500, Shaun McCance escreveu:
> ...
> > > The problem is mainly with web
> > > content, when you have charts with colorblind-unfriendly colors. At this
> > > time, the user is supposed to just turn the filter on on that moment,
> > > choosing which filter fits best on that image, and after reading the
> > > image, turn the filter off again.
> > We certainly have great accessibility inside the desktop,
> > and I think it's a great idea to make tools to compensate
> > for the bad accessibility in places we can't control.
> > What worries me, though, is the discoverability of this
> > feature.  As a color-blind user, if I encountered some
> > pie chart on the web with crappy colors, it would never
> > occur to me to open the screen magnifier.
> > The technology is cool.  Now we need to shake out the
> > user interaction.
> 
> Yeah... I was talking to Carlos about this, and there's one important
> thing about it, usually the people who would use the colorblind filters
> would not need the zooming, so it probably don't make sense to make its
> management gnome-mag-oriented.

Here is the discussion about this:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-accessibility-list/2006-October/msg00040.html

This illustrate the point that colorblind filters are also usefull in
magnifiers:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-accessibility-list/2006-October/msg00055.html

> 
> Probably just creating a gnome-applet that does what test/control-client
> (inside gnome-mag source) does, but being colorblind-oriented would be
> enough.
> 
> > > Again, this filter is not meant to help usage of gnome applications
> > > itself, because gnome is already colorblind-friendly. We're talking here
> > > mainly about web content. To show that, I've taken some usefull
> > > screenshots using vertical split in gnome-mag [1].
> > > [1] http://people.debian.org/~ruoso/colorblind/
> > I can see the numbers!
> 
> /me understand this feeling ;)
> 
> daniel
> 
> 


	
	
		
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