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Accessibility for Sight impaired : A 'fix' for fonts not scaling #7092
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Wouldn't this rather be a job for the built-in accessibility tools of the operating system, e.g. the magnifier? I think it might be confusing for user with better eyesight to have everything they read repeated to them via tool tips that are not even tool tips. An what about items that have usable tool tips which explain the purpose of an element? They cannot have two tool tips. For all elements shown above except for the song editor block it should already be possible to increase their font size. |
That why i wrote de-selectable in Settings. Only those who has issues reading lmms' font, would invoke the feature.
It is quite difficult/ annoying to use.
That "What is this" feature was removed, so is the qMark in the tool-line. Its gone. |
I think effort would be better spent fixing the underlying font issues rather than implementing a workaround. @michaelgregorius has done a lot of work towards this (as he alludes to in his comment) - see recent discussion in #2510. Also, as I mentioned in #5240 (although there it was in reference to file dialogs), I don't think it's LMMS's responsibility to work around poorly designed OS features. If you want a better magnifier, there are numerous third-party programs specifically designed to do this. LMMS, while it should be accessible as possible to as many users as possible, is not an accessibility tool. |
Can this issue be closed @musikBear? |
Enhancement Summary
Suggest using mouse-rollover to create a large hint in a specified position on screen.
Justification
Accessibility for Sight impaired. The biggest issue for all Sight impaired users are the fonts used in menus and bars.
LMMS fonts are not readable.
Explanation
By chance i got this idea that could be a 'fix' for qT fonts not being scaleable on our UI.
It is already partly implemented.
If we have a named block in songeditor and let mouse roll-over that block, this happens:
The blocks name is shown in a mouse-hint next to the block.
The blocks name is not readable
The Hint is readable!
My thought was that is we made this roll-over/ rest feature globally for all text-objects
like here for the Samples in folder Flack
Then it would no be an issue that lmms own fonts are absurdly small and absolutely impossible to read.
The sight-impaired would instead read the hint next to the un-readable item
Some examples:
Mockup
Used in Menu| File
Used in Piano-roll | Note-selector
Used on an instrument UI (is that possible?)
As a sight-impaired user, i would then only look at the hints, not the actual lmms-text. I would only drag the mouse down over the tiny text, but read what was inside the hints, then click in the menu, without actually reading anything in it.
The feature could be de-selected in Settings for those that did not want those hints, but even users with decent eyes says they have to lean over to read lmms' fonts, so perhaps this hint-feature would have more general interest.
The size of the actual hints would best be a CSS thing, that would make the feature ..scaleable (pi).
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