Re: Help accessibility [Was: New look of the yelp TOC for review]

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Calum Benson wrote:

> Jeff Waugh wrote:
>
>
> > Okay, but I still don't understand the link between GTK+ theme and the help
> > document stylesheets if they're already designed to be accessible. I'd hope
> > that we only have one stylesheet for our documentation, and that it be a11y
> > happy from the start.
>
> The problem is that there is no one "accessible" theme-- some people
> need big print, some need high or low contrast, some need both.  I dunno
> much (well, anything) about stylesheets, but I'm guessing the only way
> we could get away with a universal stylesheet would be if Yelp had
> buttons to increase/decrease font size on the fly, and the ability to
> choose the document's foreground, background and link colours.  
>
> Otherwise I assume we'd need to provide different stylesheets to meet
> different users' requirements, and provide some way of choosing which
> one to use either in Yelp or some centralised desktop location.
Could an html stylesheet be tied into the metatheme system?

The following gives a lot of useful information about designing 
accessible stylesheets:
 http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-CSS-TECHS/

I don't know how many of these CSS things are actually useful with 
gtkhtml2 at the moment though.

James.

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