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[Sohail Mirza <mirzmaster@xxxxxxxxx>]

Are any plans underway to produce just such a client in time for Lucid?


On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Mark Shuttleworth <mark@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 19/03/10 15:00, Sohail Mirza wrote:
> > 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.
>
> There's a brightness difference between the no-messages state, and the
> "you have messages" state. There are no alarm or warning states (no
> green vs red issues). And beyond that, this does not aim to be a perfect
> solution. The indicators are addressed over dbus, it would be preferable
> to have a11y-oriented specialist listeners to handle special cases than
> to compromise the design for the default case.
>
> You can, for example, produce a messaging menu client which announces
> changes in a way that is appropriate, either with a large text overlay
> for the hearing impaired, or with speech synthesis for the visually
> impaired.
>
> Mark
>
>


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