[Kde-accessibility] experimental idea with colour fonts

[Frederik Gladhorn]

Hi Michel,

I don't think anyone has time to work on your proposal at the moment. I would 
like feedback from people that this is helpful at least - I guess you can 
easily create documents with this kind of color scheme to let people try.

Greetings,
Frederik

On Saturday, September 13, 2014 09:54:20 AM michel wrote:
> i suggested the idea a few years back. I neglected it since then.
> https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=83&t=93881
> 
> in short, the idea is for the people that are partially blind and rely on
> the magnifying lens. .... of course it's also "kool" :P .
> 
> Instead of relying only on the shape of the letters, they could instaid read
> by distinguishing the colours of the letters. This should ease reading,
> because more readable text can be crammed in the scream. There is some
> learning involved, but it can be incremental and relatively painless.
> 
> I've seen on TV, some people that need to literally put there nose just in
> front of the screen, with the letters taking over the whole hight of the
> screen to be able to read. These kind of people would benefit the most.
> 
> The proper way to do it, would be to implement part of the SVG fonts.
> The hacker way, would be to permit for individual letters to have there own
> colours/background colour in KDE applications. For example, all "a" are red
> with yellow background, all "b" are green with purple background. As an
> extra hack, new fonts can be made, specifically for this use, that's
> unrelated with the developers here.
> 
> I think the hacker way isn't too difficult. Right?
> I'm not a programmer, isn't my idea simple enough and worth implementing?
> What you think? Why you wouldn't want to implement the hacker solution?
> 
> I think it's an idea that is worth looking in to.
> 
> I would like to discuss it a bit.
> 
> Thank you for reading.
> 
> :D
> 
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