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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Nov 5 13:18:02 -0800
2005 -------
This reply addresses your request for clarification.
The "blank space" request addresses the issue of
"spacing" and the difference between having things
too close together to distinguish one from the other or
spaced far enough apart such that a person who is afflicted
with "low vision" or "sighted but classified as legally
blind" vision can use the suite and word processor button bars.
I would imagine that folks who have severe myopia that is not
completely correctable with lenses have the same problem --
their vision is permanently blurred at "screen distance" and
distinguishing one object from another on a graphical user
interface is difficult.
Here is a text representation of an example of what is needed:
[BUTTON #1][VERTICAL LINE SEPARATOR][SPACE SEPARATOR][VERTICAL LINE
SEPARATOR][BUTTON#2][SPACE SEPARATOR][BUTTON #3][VERTICAL LINE SEPARATOR]
The button bar itself shows up as follows along the following lines:
|BUTTON#1| |[BUTTON#2] [BUTTON#3]|
This was a capability that the earlier version of OOo did in
fact contain. Thus, by using Large buttons and liberal use of
intermittent spaces and vertical seperators on the button bars,
the less sighted users could distinguish between one button and
function and the next button/function.
Ver 2.0 has done away with that capability and, hence, has made
itself visually unusable to a goodly number of users who could
use the earlier version.
Thank you very mujch for your consideration; I haven't had the
opportunity to check back in for a few days.
This really is a critical issue to the visually handicapped; if
they cannot use a word processor, it is, sadly, becoming a major
difference between being able to get a paycheck and being on the
public dole unnecessarily.
If you need me to do so, I could manufacture a JPEG image for you;
but really, all you need do is load up an earlier version of OOo
and alter a button bar such that it employs the following custom
visual features:
3D icons
Separator
Invisible Separator
If you do this, you will see how the icons can be spaced apart at
various distances, one from another. If that is still unclear, by
all means, please let me know, and I shall try to create a graphical
representation of two contrasting button bar visual representations.
Thank you,
Nuncus
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