Re: Idea: Dyslexia screen tinter

2009-11-03 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Munro wrote on 02/11/09 19:37: ... What I propose is a centralised dedicated accessibility tool that enables the user to slide colour values up and down to change both background and text colour, with an example block of text that changes as

Re: Idea: Dyslexia screen tinter

2009-11-02 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Neil Neil Munro wrote on 02/11/09 01:53: ... Many of my friends or people I have met have dyslexia and struggle to read information on screen, however recent studies have shown overlaying colour over text or changing both the text colour and

Re: Idea: Dyslexia screen tinter

2009-11-02 Thread Neil Munro
I know there are ways to achieve this under GNOME but it's not at all easy to get it perfect and neither is it obvious. Additionally some widgets require the same treatment that are not currently theme able. Web pages for example need to have the background colour to work, and there might be a way

Re: Idea: Dyslexia screen tinter

2009-11-02 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 02.11.2009 um 20:37 schrieb Neil Munro: What I propose is a centralised dedicated accessibility tool that enables the user to slide colour values up and down to change both background and text colour, with an example block of text that changes as they edit the values. This

Re: Idea: Dyslexia screen tinter

2009-11-02 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
2009/11/2 Markus Hitter m...@jump-ing.de: Am 02.11.2009 um 20:37 schrieb Neil Munro: What I propose is a centralised dedicated accessibility tool that enables the user to slide colour values up and down to change both background and text colour, with an example block of text that changes

Idea: Dyslexia screen tinter

2009-11-01 Thread Neil Munro
Hello, please forgive me if I get protocall wrong, I've read up and tried to get something implemented into Ubuntu that although doesn't directly affect me, I feel it represents a barrier of entry to use Ubuntu. Many of my friends or people I have met have dyslexia and struggle to read