From kde-accessibility Mon Sep 04 15:55:56 2006 From: Olaf Jan Schmidt Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 15:55:56 +0000 To: kde-accessibility Subject: Re: [Kde-accessibility] OpenOffice and KDE4 Accessiibilty [was: Message-Id: <200609041810.40369.ojschmidt () kde ! org> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-accessibility&m=115738535623888 Hi Étienne! It is nice to hear about your work. Are you aware that KDE includes almost 2200 monochrome SVG icons in the kdeaccessibility module? My first impression is that the style of your icons is similar and that you have mostly done icons not used in KDE, so the icons complement each other perfectly. Danny Allen, who created our monochrome icons, mentioned several times that he is open for collaboration with other free software projects. I even invited the GNOME team to reuse our work, but somehow this didn't happen. Our high contrast icons are monochrome because we also have a function that colourises the foreground and background colour of the icons. This allows us to define high contrast themes where the icons colours are identical to the standard text and background colours. Partially sighted users responded positive to this in a usability test. We did not yet use any blur test as described on the page linked by you. This strategy makes a lot of sense for accessibility. I think it would be helpful to do such a test for the KDE monochrome icons, and then to change those that are too similar. Olaf [ Étienne Bersac ] > Hello all, > > I'm the one working on a11y icons in the ubuntu-artwork team. I've > started the work. I'll try to keep an up2date snapshot of my work at > http://bersace03.free.fr/pub/Ubuntu/Artwork/HighContrast/ . > > That would be nice to have a SVN repo for such icons. > > Étienne. -- Olaf Jan Schmidt, KDE Accessibility co-maintainer, open standards accessibility networker, Protestant theology student and webmaster of http://accessibility.kde.org/ and http://www.amen-online.de/ _______________________________________________ kde-accessibility mailing list kde-accessibility@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-accessibility