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 <m...@ubuntu.com> 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 > > -- sfm
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