Re: Low-Vision user observation

[Joseph Scheuhammer <clown alum mit edu>]

Hi Bryen,

I'm still digesting your full message.  With respect to cross hairs, you 
wrote:
> 2. The crosshairs option is nice, but I found it distracting for the
> most part.  I suppose in all fairness if I stuck to it, after a while
> I'd get used to it.  It was a lot easier to locate my mouse pointer than
> a large cursor mouse pointer would be.  Nevertheless, the crosshairs do
> interfere to some extent.  See this screenshot where configuring in
> gnome-teak-tool, the crosshairs prevented me from seeing values as I
> toggled up or down.http://paste.opensuse.org/83634348  

It's possible to set up the cross hairs such that they do not intersect 
the mouse.  Below is a screen shot to show that.  This is a shot of the 
same zoom options tab panel as in your screen shot, but with different 
cross hairs settings.  I've made the cross hairs as thin as possible, 
also to make them less of a distraction.  But, I'm not sure that being 
that thin is a good setting for you.  To compensate, I've left their 
transparency fairly low -- put another way, their contrast is relatively 
high:
http://aegis.idrc.ocad.ca/uploads/3.6/XHairsWithGap.png

The following screen shot shows the cross hairs preferences dialog for 
the above configuration.  Note:  uncheck the "Overlaps mouse cursor" 
checkbox:
http://aegis.idrc.ocad.ca/uploads/3.6/XHairsSettingsWithGap.png

Does that help?

--
;;;;joseph.


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