On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 13:29 +0200, Gabriele Mohr wrote:
Am 14.06.2012 16:58, schrieb Bryen M Yunashko:
Text mode is available but again, limited ability to see well without good high contrast.
Hi,
I have added an additional color scheme to the text mode YaST which you can try out. The scheme is activated by setting Y2NCURSES_COLOR_THEME="highcontrast" in /etc/sysconfig/yast2.
I have taken "mono" as a base and have changed the background to a light grey.
yast2-ncurses packages for 12.1 and Factory are here:
https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=yast2-ncurses&project=home%3...
Greetings Gabi
Hi Gabi, Thanks for quickly looking into this. I downloaded and enabled high contrast per your instructions and see it works. However, I think perhaps we should add one more theme "High Contrast-Inverted." Your high contrast theme is mainly white, which is good for some low-vision people, but not all. Some are extremely sensitive to light stuff, including me. The closest "accessible" theme I have tested is rxvt. It's a good high-contrast inverted theme except that the background is (I think) grey? The grey gives off some light and makes it a bit hard. Although the description for rxvt says "black-yellow-red." If we could fix rxvt to be either actual dark black background or clone rxvt to a new theme (high-contrast-inverted), it would be perfect (for me anyway.) By the way, we need to add high contrast to the sysconfig file list of options. Should I be opening a bug report to track this topic or is discussing here on ML fine? This fixes YaST-ncurses for normal usage, and I very much appreciate it. But doesn't address the main concern I raised which is the installation process itself. In that situation, because there is so much green and white, it becomes too bright using the graphical installer. I'd like to be able to continue to use the graphical installer, but in an inverted high contrast mode. While I suppose we could switch to text mode, I don't think it would be a good approach for standard users to have to figure out to edit the sysconfig file for accessible options. There needs to be an easier way to go about that. I don't know if that means we need to request additional artwork templates or if that means some technical process that automatically inverts everything. Whatever I can do, including advising with artwork team, let me know how I can contribute here from a non-coder standpoint. :-) One more thing I'd like to raise. While I know it might get complicated figuring out how to invert the graphical installer, it would be more aesthetically pleasing in the long run for low-vision users. A few months ago, I was addressing a visually-impaired audience and in my talk I was saying "I'd like to see more websites aimed at low-vision audiences not sacrifice beauty for functionality." I was surprised that half the room got up and roared with appaluse. It seems many out there are frustrated that they encounter a very boring text-like website (or screen) instead of something just as beautiful as what sighted people can see. Thanks again. You rock for creating a great first step so quickly! Bryen
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