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On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 02:38:17PM +0200, enno+gentoo@××××××××××××××.de wrote: |
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> As I'm not affected I don't know about any issues for the visually impaired. |
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Sadly, a lot of people (including developers) seem to think that people |
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either see or are blind and that's it. I see plenty well enough for most |
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things that need doing (the state of GA even says I can drive, but then |
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if you've ever been here you know they say that to anyone who pays the |
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fee for a DL and doesn't have a seeing eye dog or white cane). |
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The font thing is one of the main reasons I prefer so many CLI programs. |
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I can configure my terminals and emulators *once* and most everything I |
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need is usable. A lot of the gtk, qt, fltk, etc interfaces are |
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absolutely horrible for people who need large text, and it isn't |
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uncommon for the boxes text has to fit in to be coded to max-out to |
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a size which is insufficient. |
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klaatu virada nicto |
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