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(KDE in picture alphabet = Kangaroo, Door, Egg)

The idea has a very serious purpose, its not just for coolness.

It's intended to be used very seriously by partially sighted people, to help them read, by helping them distinguish the letters.

In practice:

Edit(28/02/2011): Implement part of SVG fonts

The fonts should be able to render high quality images, of important size, as well as normal sized fonts. Some peoples vision is so bad, they have to zoom the letters to almost the hight of the screen and stick there head just in front of it.

It would be nice if they were capable to also use animations (like gif).

Images as vector graphics, as well as raster images.

Simpler alternative:

KDE

Because, it might take some time, before this is implemented. A simpler interim solution can be done. To ad the capability to set colours for individual fonts and there individual background. Example, all "a" are red with blue background, all "b" are green with brown background, etc... Combined with custom fonts, we can then hack a two colour solution.

I've written a half arsed demonstration greasemonkey scrip.

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/96470

and a kate highlighting file (colors only scheme)
http://kde-files.org/content/show.php/Colors+alphabet?content=140780



Mozilla proposal
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=637421

Mozilla Wiki
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Feature_Brainstorming:Accessibility#Multi_colour_fonts_.28serious_purpose.2C_not_just_coolness.29

Gnome proposal
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=643525

It would also be cool though!

isn't that the purpose of the magnifier effect in desktop effects, to make it easier for vision impaired users?

google01103 wrote:isn't that the purpose of the magnifier effect in desktop effects, to make it easier for vision impaired users?

You can put more readable words in the same screen area. Its not meant to replace the magnifier. It complements it, or even replace it for some people. Well, if you think about it is an annoyance to have in reality the equivalent of a tiny screen.

I like this idea a lot. My dad is vision impaired and has a difficult time using the computer. It's made me extra aware of these types of issues. So I really like it!

I DO like the concept, I've got some friends who's vision impaired and he has severe problems to read his screen on Windows XP, that's pretty good : +1

david.