[Kde-accessibility] experimental idea with colour fonts

Jeremy Whiting jpwhiting at kde.org
Tue Sep 30 17:03:28 UTC 2014


Michel,

That's the problem there. We developers of KDE-Accessibility
applications don't know our users. The KDE Community is trying to get
something figured out in this regard to help us find and reach out to
our users but it's not in place yet. Currently the only way we have
any knowledge of who's using our software is feedback we get by
e-mail, forums, or bug reports. This is very likely a very small
percentage of the users of KDE software itself and most likely not a
very good group of those that find kde accessibility software useful
or required for their situations unfortunately.  If you have any ideas
for how we could contact more users and find out who they are, what
their needs are etc. we are open to ideas.

BR,
Jeremy


On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 5:24 AM, michel <okgomdjgbmoij at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, there's the greasemonkey script and the kate highlights definitions that
> i made... I mention them on an other email
>
> The colours have to be user defined, not hard coded. I don't see the point in
> trying to define a certain colour code. The user can always just change the
> definitions to his liking/abilities.... Also i don't think it's that difficult to
> do.
>
> Most importantly, where do i find people with visual problems?
> That's more difficult then it looks like.
> Can some one please help with this point?
> We'll use the scripts i already made on them, and they'll report back here.
>
> Can some one help with finding test subjects? I'm not networked with people
> like that....
>
> It isn't possible for KDE-accessibility to ask it's user to participate in a
> little experiment?
>
> Is there any KDE-accessibility leader reading this?
>
> On Tuesday 30 September 2014 09:49:05 you wrote:
>> This seems like a good idea to me.
>>
>> I would recommend making a sample webpage, or a mini app, and do some
>> research with it on people that have visual problems. Get some feedback
>> from them, make some changes, find out which color combinations are
>> best. Find out if they would like to habe something like that on their
>> computer, and how much it would help them.
>>
>> And finnaly make a report with all that.
>>
>> I don't think implementing this in KDE would be problematic, but it must be
>> worth it. The development time could take some time, and no one will do
>> this if it turns out to be useless, or unused. The report I've mentione
>> would be a good selling point for the ideea.
>>
>>
>> *Ovidiu-Florin Bogdan*
>> GeekAliens.com[1]
>> Kubuntu România[2]
>>
>> --------
>> [1] http://GeekAliens.com
>> [2] http://ro.kubuntu.org
>
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