- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 12:44:34 -0500 (EST)
- To: David Poehlman <poehlman@clark.net>
- cc: w3c-wai-au@w3.org
I read this as an important example for the checkpoint: Ensure that font, sizes, etc are configurable independently of teir intended presentation. So it would in effect be a technique for that checkpoint. Is that a fair summary, and does anyone want to add to that? Charles On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, David Poehlman wrote: I have submitted a couple of comments, but have one specific bone which I deal with and feel could be made more accessible. This is color picking. There are many ways to pick colors and while it is true that one could write in the numbers, the most common practice when using an authoring tool is to <blend> the color you want and then apply it. In netscape composer, ms front page and its junior express as well as arachnophelia, there are sliders from which this can be done. these sliders apparently show a bit of sample text in the color that is represented on the slider at the point of highlight. Rendering these colors as text on the sliders would help a great deal and perhaps be the key in many instances to accessibility for good web design by people with certain types of disabilities. I like for instance the arach approach because it allows for adjustment of the color using three components. hew, saturation and luminosity. The boxes allow you to input numbers and there are also sliders. Some sort of guide text would make this process more if not actually accessible. What should happen here is that when I pick say back ground color, I should be able to move up and down the slider and as the color changes as I move the slider, the name of the color is displayed on the screen. if I want to change it, typeing in numbers in the thre color attribute edit fields instantly renders that change by updating the name of the color on the screen. this should be done in such a way as not to appear in the color that is rendered incase assistive technology has trouble getting at text in particular colors. Thanks. ------------------------------------------- Hands-On Technolog(eye)s Touching The Internet ftp://ftp.clark.net/pub/poehlman http://poehlman.clark.net mailto:poehlman@clark.net voice 301-949-7599 Dynamic Solutions Inc. Best of Service for your small business network needs http://www.dnsolutions.com --Charles McCathieNevile mailto:charles@w3.org phone: +1 617 258 0992 http://purl.oclc.org/net/charles W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI MIT/LCS - 545 Technology sq., Cambridge MA, 02139, USA
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