From: David Bolter ([email protected])
Date: 05/16/02
Peter Korn wrote:
>Hi David,
>
>>>[discussion from gnome-accessibility-devel on theme compliance]
>>>
>>I ponder the implications of this with respect to the gok key fonts...
>>I think the gok is a special case.
>>
>>thoughts?
>>
>
>Yes and no. Yes, GOK is special in that it has an architecture for specifying
>lots of specific things within a layout to a great degree of detail. No, GOK
>isn't special in that users with impairments that require theme support may
>also be GOK users, and should get an "appropriate" response in GOK when they
>change themes.
>
Agreed.
>
>
>>From a 508 perspective, while it may not make sense for GOK to mimic much of
>the stuff in any given theme (e.g. leopard print backgrounds), there should at
>least be a GOK mode in which it respects color and size settings (e.g.
>foreground & background color, text font and text size). That way a user can
>affect everything all at once on their desktop, including their GOK.
>
Agreed.
I am still particularly interested in the font size situation though. If the user wants 20 point font (in the theme), and the GOK obeyed, then some keyboards would not fit on the screen -- which is not very accessible. There are things we could try as solutions to this problem, but these solutions might require substantial mods to the GOK engine design such as layout, chunking, and scanning. One possible solution that might be interesting is "fish-eyeing" the currently highlighted keys - but that is beyond our capabilities/time constraints at this point.
Clearly things like magnifiers disobey font size (thank goodness), but somehow they seem more forgivable for such an indiscretion for obvious reasons...
>
>As this is a new list and probably still a small community, I've explicitly
>cc-ed a few folks who should likely be part of this discussion, but who may
>not be on this list.
>
Great! And thanks for your input Peter.
cheers,
~~David
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