[Kde-accessibility] OpenOffice and KDE4 Accessiibilty [was: Orca/KDE Integration]

[Olaf Jan Schmidt]

Hi Étienne!

It is nice to hear about your work.

Are you aware that KDE includes almost 2200 monochrome SVG icons in the 
kdeaccessibility module? My first impression is that the style of your icons 
is similar and that you have mostly done icons not used in KDE, so the icons 
complement each other perfectly.

Danny Allen, who created our monochrome icons, mentioned several times that he 
is open for collaboration with other free software projects. I even invited 
the GNOME team to reuse our work, but somehow this didn't happen.

Our high contrast icons are monochrome because we also have a function that 
colourises the foreground and background colour of the icons. This allows us 
to define high contrast themes where the icons colours are identical to the 
standard text and background colours. Partially sighted users responded 
positive to this in a usability test.

We did not yet use any blur test as described on the page linked by you. This 
strategy makes a lot of sense for accessibility. I think it would be helpful 
to do such a test for the KDE monochrome icons, and then to change those that 
are too similar.

Olaf

[ Étienne Bersac ]
> Hello all,
>
> I'm the one working on a11y icons in the ubuntu-artwork team. I've
> started the work. I'll try to keep an up2date snapshot of my work at
> http://bersace03.free.fr/pub/Ubuntu/Artwork/HighContrast/ .
>
> That would be nice to have a SVN repo for such icons.
>
> Étienne.

-- 
Olaf Jan Schmidt, KDE Accessibility co-maintainer, open standards 
accessibility networker, Protestant theology student and webmaster of 
http://accessibility.kde.org/ and http://www.amen-online.de/