[Kde-accessibility] Re: new suggestion, images instaid of fonts

[wofgdkncxojef at gmail.com]

I don't think that asking this directly to kdelibs or something will work for 
political reasons. Maybe if it was the Kde-accessibility project that asked 
it, it would be beater.

Real color fonts are too much work at this stage of the idea. I'm more in 
favor of a simple hack, in order to prove the usefulness of the concept. To 
have an experimental feature and weight for feed back from users.

world context conversion?
I think you misunderstood, install the demonstration greasemonkey script.
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/92355
Its individual letters A-B-C..., not whole words. Just ignore my crazy 
article, it only confused you. For example an "A" is replaced with a image of 
an ananas, "B" with a banana, etc..., or anything you want depending on your 
needs.

From earlier i forget. As a bare minimum, it would be nice to add the ability 
to KDE, to choose colors for individual letters and a separate individual 
color for there background. My script can do that too. I don't think that 
technically that thing is very demanding.

My suggestion doesn't need to be done "properly". An ugly inefficient hack is 
fine too.

On technical implementation: The simple control of colors of individual 
letters and there background, i'm guessing should be relatively painless. If 
it gets overridden here and there, it doesn't matter for now. The image 
substitution part is more low level, but i'm guessing that if you insert an 
image instead of the font (still treated, but ignored) it could be done in 
some lines. Just need something that barely works.

Was this or something similar ever discussed before? I don't think so.

On Friday 10 December 2010 14:16:48 David Powell wrote:
> hi
> well the framework is there for individual letters to as image by using
> custom fonts
> guess the addition of  a full color font  would be a good feature request
> to the right list
> font animation another
> (although do remember scripts like html do are going try to control the
> colors of the font/image)
> 
> but to do what you seem to be talking about is going to need word and
> context conversion
> basicaly it becomes another language a suitable translator would be needed
> although the translation system for kde as a whole is already there it
> would the addition of another language to that
> and that would take some time and a lot of personal to impliment  ,
> 
> david
> 
> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 12:12 AM, <wofgdkncxojef at gmail.com> wrote:
> > i made a little demonstration greasemonkey script
> > http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/92355
> > 
> > The script replaces individual letters by arbitrary images and little
> > animations (gif)(it also sets individual color fonts and background,
> > thats less important)
> > 
> > Target audience is people with vision difficulties, young
> > children(learning ABC), dyslexics, for coolness :P etc....
> > 
> > The idea is that if you add color and even animation, the visibility of
> > text
> > increases. If you have vision problems, after some retraining, you'll be
> > able
> > to read with less magnification, by taking your information from the
> > colors.
> > Reading becomes easier, because you can fit more words in a screen, some
> > people
> > are so near blind, that need one letter to reach the hight of the screen.
> > Because vision problems vary from person to person, its up to them to
> > chose what images they want to use.
> > 
> > For young children, we could use a phonetic alphabet (A=ananas, etc...),
> > and
> > right away they will be able to decipher a little bit of what is reaten.
> > The
> > default images of the script are actually a phonetic alphabet.
> > 
> > And of course KDE can brag that its on the bleeding edge of innovation.
> > :P
> > 
> > I have some other motives, (a bit crazy >:p)
> > http://thedeweirdifier.blogspot.com/2010/12/unbabel.html
> > but they are not important here. My previous suggestions are pertinent
> > enough
> > on there own.
> > 
> > Technically, i expect this to be implemented at the library level, maybe
> > even
> > in QT it self. I don't think its that complicated technically, you can
> > recycle
> > code from normal image rendering and insert it where the fonts where
> > supposed
> > to be rendered.
> > 
> > From there the good gospel could be spread to other projects (gnome,
> > Firefox,
> > etc)
> > 
> > So folks, what do you think? :D
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