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Issue #:|56744
Summary:|Toolbar -- Accessability Problem - Visually Imparired
|Users
Component:|Word processor
Version:|current
Platform:|PC
URL:|
OS/Version:|Windows XP
Status:|UNCONFIRMED
Status whiteboard:|
Keywords:|
Resolution:|
Issue type:|FEATURE
Priority:|P1
Subcomponent:|ui
Assigned to:|mru
Reported by:|nuncus
------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Oct 26 17:43:53 -0700
2005 -------
Version: 2.0
O/S: XP; Svc Pk 2
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The ability to insert blank spaces ("invisible seperators" in ver 1.1) and 3-D
buttons on the toolbars is either not present or is not functioning properly.
The spacing out of icons on toolbars, as well as the ability to use raised, 3-D
icon graphics, is CRITICAL for people with low vision and handicapped vision.
Otherwise, your low vision/visually handicapped users cannot distinguish between
one icon on a toolbar and the next icon.
"Most" visually handicapped persons -- of which your User base most likely
numbers in the hundreds of thousands, at a minimium -- could make do "reasonably
well" with the following graphic capabilities in the "old" toolbars of ver 1.1::
1. Use 3-D toolbar buttons (provided a line of demarcation and some extra
contrast as to where an icon "ended" and where an icon "began.")
2. A "space" ("invisible separator") between two icons. This feature/graphic
interface capability allowed visually handicapped and low vision individuals to
distinguish between the descrete icons on a toolbar. "Most" suites -- the Ver.
1.1.5 of OOo, as well as the commercial suites -- offer this capability.
Although to fully sighted people these may appear to be debatable points, to
people who suffer from visual difficulties short of complete blindness, these
small graphical assists can mean the difference between being able to use a GUI
and being gainfully employed (most employment in fact does involve the ability
to use a computer to get one's work done) or not being gainfully employed.
Is there EITHER:
1. Some undocumented way in existence (or perhaps a documented way that we have
not yet been able to find) for accomplishing this ability to make the toobars
more accessable to visually handicapped/low vision users in Ver 2.0; OR, if not,
2. Is there someone on the development team who not only could write a patch to
resurrect these capabilities but also who would in fact be willing to do so?
Using a combination of "large icons and text" is not a substitute for being able
to add the contrast demarcation and spacing effect afforded by the earlier
version of OOo.
In addition, there appears to be no feature in the Windows operating system
(which actually does make a conscious effort to make computing available to
people with disabilities and handicaps) that will accomplish these visual
effects/assists through any carryover effect from the O/S to the application
level other than the high contrast effect, which does seem to carryover
reasonably well and for which you have so kindly provided.
Please don't leave us behind as you progress with the development of OOo. It's
not a perfect world comprising perfectly made people in all instances, and
people do suffer such things as eye injuries and eye diseases; plus, as people
age, their visual accuity tends to lessen in all events.
Thank you for your consideration.
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