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Re: [Ayatana] GSoC '10 Idea : NotifyOSD improvements

Mark,

With this focus on colours and subtle changes in brightness, what's the plan for accommodating users with vision impairments?

Under the outline you've given, users with even simple red-green colour blindness would not be able to distinguish what the severity of a message is.  With a complete lack of reliance on movement or position, some users may have a very difficult time interpreting the various messaging idioms being discussed here.

So what's the accessibility plan here?

Thanks,

Sohail Mirza


On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 6:48 AM, Mark Shuttleworth <mark@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 19/03/10 02:22, Dylan McCall wrote:
> This begs the question: Why on Earth was the coloured wants-attention
> icon dropped? Could indicator-messages differentiate the importance of
> events and use a different icon accordingly? (For example, coloured
> icon for actual messages, just lit up for when contacts log in).

The spectrum of attention-grabbiness, if you want to think of it that
way, is:

 - outline
 - dimmed
 - full mono
 - green
 - orange
 - red

We don't flash :-)

The coloured wants-attention messaging icon was nuked at my request
because it was 3D, and our icons should be flat. I'm expecting a flat
green version that we can test, soon. Yesterday would have been nice :-)

The real question is one of taste and urgency. How urgent is a message,
really? If it's something that we never want anyone to miss, we should
go green. Otherwise, we could use the raise from dim to bright mono.

> Further, why does the indicator-messages icon go dark (like when Bluetooth is turned off) just because there aren't messages? It suggests that there are no messaging apps running.
>

We should use outline-to-full to indicate that there are messaging apps
running.

Mark


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