Re: 'Accessibility' theme [was: Re: GNOME 2.0 default gtkrc]

[luke <gnome ms3 riverview net>]

For accessibility we really need these 4 types of High-contrast themes:

White on Black w/regular size fonts
Black on White w/regular size fonts
White on Black w/large fonts
Black on Black w/large fonts

I have a legally blind aunt with low vision, And I just assumed that
High contrast with big fonts and magnifiers would help her use her
computer better. She explained me that a lot of people that have low
vision don't necessarily have blurred vision. Some have a small
vision-window. 

For her it would be like us sitting at a normal distance from our
computer screens, taking a sheet of paper with a hole the size of a
quarter in it and putting it up against our monitors and having to move
it around looking through the quarter size hole to find things on the
screen. For her the high contrast helped but big fonts meant less that
she could fit into her small window of vision.

Regards,
Luke 


On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 07:50, Bill Haneman wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, 2002-01-08 at 23:31, James M. Cape wrote:
> >> I'm attaching a gtkrc-2.0 file which I think would look good as the
> >> GNOME 2.0 default...
> 
> Hi:
> 
> I have a theme that's useful for accessibility, it provides high 
> contrast and a larger-than-default font size, which makes a good first 
> example for accessibility support.  Eventually we will need at least one 
> other theme in addition to this for accessibility, a low-contrast 
> large-print theme.
> 
> The theme needs some tweaking surely, it's pretty simple; also it really 
> needs a couple more patchlets to support theming of focus indication 
> more consistently.
> 
> Where should this theme be packaged, i.e. which package should install 
> it?  I would think GTK+ would be the logical candidate, in which case I 
> can provide a GTK+ patch that includes/installs the theme, in 
> .../themes/HighContrastLargePrint/gtk-2.0/gtkrc
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Bill
> 
> >I like this theme okay, except for having the up and down
> >scrollbar arrows stacked next to each other at the bottom
> >of the scrollbar.  Yuck.
> >
> >Are we going to have a gtk theme properties control panel 
> >capplet for 2.0?  If so, will we also have a collection of 
> >good gtk themes?
> >
> ...
> 
> >	Miles
> 
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