consider people with poor vision, was Re: F19 Installer a little better, but...[consider people with poor vision

[moshe nahmias]

I agree with Gavin, I have a poor vision because of Keratoconus and on most
cases it's not easy or comfortable for me to read things when installing
fedora.
More important is that we should consider poor eyesight since we want any
one to be able to install and use fedora.
I would want (for F20 if possible) to be able to change the font size
easily.


On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Gavin Flower <
GavinFlower at archidevsys.co.nz> wrote:

> On 15/06/13 16:22, Felix Miata wrote:
>
>> On 2013-06-14 12:53 (GMT-0700) Adam Williamson composed:
>>
> [...]
>
>> Among the many other complaints other people have raised
>>
>>> about the installer, I don't recall one other person complaining about
>>> text being too small.
>>>
>>
>> Do you think people in the business of developing software or otherwise
>> using a PC for most of any given work day are people whose vision is below
>> average? I don't. I think quite the opposite, that those with poorer than
>> average vision gravitate away from using a PC screen any more than they
>> must, that many won't do it at all, and that few such people pursue
>> occupations that require doing more than a little that requires using a PC.
>> Net result is most in the puter business, including FOSS software testers,
>> have both better than average vision, and more importantly, little or no
>> understanding of or appreciation for the difficulties encountered by those
>> who see less well. People aren't complaining because the people doing are
>> almost entirely made up of a class of people with good vision, people who
>> do it because they don't have undue visual obstacles to doing it.
>>
> [...]
> For several years, I often had very misty vision because the layer of
> cells above my cornea could not handle moisture properly. Sometimes it was
> so bad that I could hardly read the keyboard at 300mm, and glancing around
> the screen meant I could eassily miss things.  I remember concentrating
> hard to resolve whether a character was a comma ',' or a full stop '.'
> (similarly 'a' & 'e') - not good for a software developer.
>
> I have had cataract surgery, and surgery to replace those layer of cells
> from grafts.  So now I can see the screen quite fine with glasses - even
> from a metre away, whereas previously I needed to be at 600mm or closer
> depending on how misty my eyes were.
>
> Well I am 62 and still doing software development - so please do not put
> important things in small print and avoid dark grey text on a light grey
> background etc. (I can read it if I notice it, but I might miss its
> significant if I just glance at the screen).  When my eyes were misty, I
> often recognised things by their overall shape even when individual
> characters where fuzzy.
>
> I am lucky (I know people who were a lot younger than I am, with much
> worse vision), I now can reduce fonts to less than their default sizes and
> see quite well, though I notice I tend to make browser text bigger. For me,
> what helped most (prior to my eye surgeries) was getting a 30" monitor. Now
> the biggest nuisance is swapping glasses: one for my laptop, one for my
> monitor, and no glasses required for walking around & driving.
>
> In conclusion, there is a whole continuum between perfect vision & being
> blind.  So for really important things, especially if considered unexpected
> (either by new people - or people familiar with that screen, but something
> important has changed)  be carefully how the text is presented.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Gavin
>
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