[Kde-accessibility] experimental idea with colour fonts

[michel]

hi Frederik

Fair enough.

Right now i'm actively asking for the simple method with individual colours 
per character. Not the SVG fonts, that's too much for a new idea. The simple 
method is what? A few days work from some one that knows KDE internals 
already?

i'm not totally impreprepared.

i somehow made a little kate script ... that is now broken. (i made some 
blurred and normal screen shots, to demonstrate that you can decipher the 
letters if you know the colour code used, despite been impossible to see their 
shapes)
i also made a simple grease monkey script .... but the userscripts site died.
I also made a simple compiling script in bash for text files.

So i already made some proof of concept scripts that we can experiment the 
idea with. (Don't ask me do do it in C++ however... B[ , it's too low level 
for me )

Do you know where to find people to tort... i mean test the idea on to? :D
I think people here are beater networked then me for this.
And we'll get the feedback on this :D

Michel

On Thursday 18 September 2014 12:13:21 Frederik Gladhorn wrote:
> 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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