Gaussian blur as testing tool

Hi folks,

I don't know if anyone else was attending Techshare this year, but  I saw Dr Sam Waller's presentation which was about using Gaussian blur to test text & icon visibility. (He's at the Cambridge (UK) University Engineering Design Centre http://www.cedc.tools/)

I'm not going to do it justice here, but the thing that stood out to me was that:
If you know the testers visual acuity (established by which line of text they could read on a chart), you can then apply a gaussian blur to an interface to reduce that acuity by a standardised amount. Then review the text and other items that need differentiation for use with low-vision.

I got in touch to see if there was interest in using that as a tool in Silver and we're looking to set up a meeting soon.

Please let me know if you'd like to be involved, it will probably be as part of a Silver sub-group.

Kind regards,

-Alastair

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