[Kde-accessibility] experimental idea with colour fonts

[michel]

hmmm

what about starting with adding in the default installation the colour 
alphabet highlights for kate/kword i made? (very simple, not the coding of the 
century)
It's everyday usable. Need to change the default to something smarter, i just 
put in something random.
i think it will be at least as useful as the ascii art driver for vlc :P

An idea:

They are a bunch of charities on the web. We could ask them to test the idea.
But KDE has to do that, not me. Maybe along side with Firefox? (KDE would have 
to ask Firefox, not me....)
KDE/Firefox would pledge to implement the idea, if the tests seam conclusive. 
There should be in advance some agreement, about what implement and conclusive 
means.

(oh joy, free software politics)

What you think?

On Tuesday 30 September 2014 11:03:28 Jeremy Whiting wrote:
> 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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