consider people with poor vision

[Ahmad Samir]

On 19 June 2013 17:46, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2013-06-19 at 10:41 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> > On Tue, 18 Jun 2013, Adam Williamson wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 2013-06-18 at 15:02 -0500, John Morris wrote:
> >
> > >> So lemme recap what you have been saying in this and other posts....
> > >> The
> > >> current design breaks both internationalization and accessability and
> > >> you recognize that reality.  Fixing these problems isn't an option
> > >> though because.... well because.
> > >>
> > >> Tearing Anaconda apart and rebuilding it from the ground up was an
> > >> imperative, complaints be damned, because the Anaconda devs had a
> > >> hankering to do that; they had a fever and the only cure was some
> > >> more
> > >> cowbell.  But making it useable while they already had it tore apart?
> > >> Nobody was interested in that.
> >
> > > What I'm saying is that there isn't a quick fix to this, which is what
> > > Felix always suggests; his suggestions always boil down to "make the
> > > fonts bigger! now!"
> >
> > > Given all of that, it's almost never the case that there's a 'quick
> > > fix'
> > > for anything when it comes to the UI. If we're going to make anaconda
> > > more accessible we need to take an overview of how to do it without
> > > compromising its other design goals, not just start throwing out quick
> > > fix ideas.
> >
> > While I doubt that there is a quick road to perfection,
> > making things better should not be all that nasty.
> > There is no need to ask the display how big it is.
> > Just ask the user if a bigger font is desired.
> > The user does not need to be given a lot of choices.
> > 96, 192 and something in between would be an improvement.
>
> It'd be an improvement for the still small number of people who need it.

I haven't tested the F19 installer, but in the F18 installer, under
"Troubleshooting", there's an "Install Fedora using basic graphics
mode" option which makes Anaconda use the Vesa driver. I think anyone
can see the text in the installer under that mode.

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Ahmad Samir