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Original Message ----<br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">From: Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org><br>To: DAVID KNIGHT <davidknight24@btinternet.com><br>Cc: Gunnar Schmi Dt <gunnar@schmi-dt.de>; kde-accessibility@kde.org<br>Sent: Thursday, 24 January, 2008 7:24:07 PM<br>Subject: Re: [Kde-accessibility] how blue must blue be for blue-on-yellow color scheme?<br><br>On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 03:41:47PM +0000, DAVID KNIGHT wrote:<br>> Last year I installed several linux boxes in the local blind centre<br>> with the large yellow on blue a11y theme. The overwhelming response<br>> from all users was that the contrast was poor.<br>><br>well, to be blunt, target group completely missed. i don't think many<br>people with red-green colorblindness consider themselves blind or even<br>in need of special care. in fact, many of those less impaired (which<br>constitute ~80% of the ~5% affected)
don't even realize they are
impaired<br>at all until some "key event".<br><br>Agreed, target missed. How about renaming it Daltonism theme?<br><br>hmm, we must be doing something wrong - with every 20th male being<br>affected, we should have at least 10 active kde devels we can ask, even<br>if our group is biased towards non-affected people ...<br><br>Post an ishihara plate and ask anyone who can't see the correct number to reply?<br>-- <br>Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please!<br>--<br>Confusion, chaos, panic - my work here is done.<br></div><br></div></div></div></body></html>