Re: new suggestion, images instaid of fonts

David Powell <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.devel.accessibility
Message-ID <[email protected]>
hi
well the framework is there for individual letters to as image by using
custom fonts
guess the addition of  a full color font  would be a good feature request to
the right list
font animation another
(although do remember scripts like html do are going try to control the
colors of the font/image)

but to do what you seem to be talking about is going to need word and
context conversion
basicaly it becomes another language a suitable translator would be needed
although the translation system for kde as a whole is already there it would
the addition of another language to that
and that would take some time and a lot of personal to impliment  ,

david


On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 12:12 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> i made a little demonstration greasemonkey script
> http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/92355
>
> The script replaces individual letters by arbitrary images and little
> animations (gif)(it also sets individual color fonts and background, thats
> less important)
>
> Target audience is people with vision difficulties, young children(learning
> ABC), dyslexics, for coolness :P etc....
>
> The idea is that if you add color and even animation, the visibility of
> text
> increases. If you have vision problems, after some retraining, you'll be
> able
> to read with less magnification, by taking your information from the
> colors.
> Reading becomes easier, because you can fit more words in a screen, some
> people
> are so near blind, that need one letter to reach the hight of the screen.
> Because vision problems vary from person to person, its up to them to chose
> what images they want to use.
>
> For young children, we could use a phonetic alphabet (A=ananas, etc...),
> and
> right away they will be able to decipher a little bit of what is reaten.
> The
> default images of the script are actually a phonetic alphabet.
>
> And of course KDE can brag that its on the bleeding edge of innovation. :P
>
> I have some other motives, (a bit crazy >:p)
> http://thedeweirdifier.blogspot.com/2010/12/unbabel.html
> but they are not important here. My previous suggestions are pertinent
> enough
> on there own.
>
> Technically, i expect this to be implemented at the library level, maybe
> even
> in QT it self. I don't think its that complicated technically, you can
> recycle
> code from normal image rendering and insert it where the fonts where
> supposed
> to be rendered.
>
> From there the good gospel could be spread to other projects (gnome,
> Firefox,
> etc)
>
> So folks, what do you think? :D
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