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 <m...@ubuntu.com> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana<https://launchpad.net/%7Eayatana> > Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana<https://launchpad.net/%7Eayatana> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > -- sfm
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