Re: Accessibility Icons

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 12 Dec 2008, at 12:43, Ezit wrote:

> I recently took this task at:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=519336, for the
> GNOME accessibility program and I am wondering if you may be able to  
> supply
> me with a couple of programs that need accessible icons.  Any help  
> would be
> appreciated.

Thanks for offering to help with this.

As I see Luca mentioned in the bug report, the easiest way to see  
which applications need the most help is switch your desktop to the  
High Contrast SVG icon theme[1], and see which high contrast icons are  
missing.

In terms of prioritising which icons to work on, I would suggest:

1. Icons that commonly appear on the desktop (devices, standard  
locations: home, documents etc.)
2=. Icons that appear on the GNOME panel (notification icons, applets)
2=. Icons that appear in the Applications, System and Places menus
4. Application toolbar icons
5. Everything else

On top of that, there's an implicit prioritisation that goes something  
like:

1. Icons that the user sees with a default install of GNOME
2. Icons the user might see having customised their desktop
3. Icons the user might see having installed additional software.

But these are only suggestions of course; any icons that you'd like to  
work on would be gratefully received...

Cheeri,
Calum.

[1] Note that the HighContrast desktop theme currently uses the older  
HighContrastLargePrint icon theme, not the High Contrast SVG theme.   
We're hoping the SVG theme might be complete enough to switch over to  
it in 2.26, though.

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