- From: Aldrik Dunbar <aldrik@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 16:24:49 +0200
- To: Scott González <scott.gonzalez@gmail.com>
- Cc: whatwg@whatwg.org
On 2012/05/17 09:17, Scott González wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 7:30 AM, Bjartur Thorlacius <svartman95@gmail.com>wrote: > > > How common will it be for modern UAs to render pages to monochrome > > displays using future HTML5 graphics features? How many of the monochrome > > displays that are left will be attached to systems with modern heavy-weight > > software? In fact, the only systems I know of that come close to being > > monochrome are handhelds whose software isn't ever updated, and terminals > > that aren't even used to display bitmaps. So I have to ask, for how long > > will color-depth negotiation be a strong enough use case to warrant this > > feature? > > > > I don't think this should just be about device capability. Users with > vision problems may opt-in to high contract mode and you may need to load > different resources based on this. I think assertive technology's can handled high contrast and colour blindness filters (additional images aren't really needed). Also monochrome can already be catered for with SVG/CSS.
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