Final call for info re accessibility profiles.

[Aurelian Radu]

Hello,

In my experience, it's better to place the magnification window at the 
bottom of the screen, so that it splits the display area horizontally, not 
vertically. Since the magnifier is mostly used for reading, emphasis should 
be put on the width, not the height, of the magnification window and the 
magnified area. On my 1024x768 display I use the following settings:

Top = 540
Bottom = 767
Left = 0
Right = 1023.

With these settings, the magnifier doesn't hide the GNOME bottom panel, 
except when the mouse is over the magnification window. Anyway, I removed 
the bottom panel on my system.

The default settings would be more appropriate for reading Japanese writing, 
I think ;)

I use a magnification factor of 8, because I'm very near-sighted. I know 
that not all visually-impaired people need to use such a high magnification 
factor, but still I think 2 might be too little. Maybe 3 or 4 should be 
considered. Unfortunately, gnopernicus is not very accessible from the point 
of view of changing settings. You need to open no less than four windows in 
order to change zoomer settings. Every time I use this program I punch 
myself in the face for not learning to program. Now it's too late, I'm an 
old dog, and busy to boot.

A thousand thanks to Luke and the team for the work they've done so far. 
I've got more suggestions/questions about gnome-mag, gnopernicus and (why 
not?) kmag, if anybody wants to hear them. I've been using the great little 
magnifier that comes with Windows for two years now and I wish GNOME/KDE 
magnifiers could be as good as that one.

Thanks for your time!

Aurelian Radu



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Luke Yelavich" <themuso at themuso.com>
To: "Ubuntu Accessibility Mailing List" 
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Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 3:39 PM
Subject: Final call for info re accessibility profiles.


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