From: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@shellworld.net>
To: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
Cc: Bastien <bzg@gnu.org>,
Org Mode Mailing List <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>,
Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: converting people to Emacs and org-mode
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 05:37:11 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.01.1304230532170.27750@freire1.furyyjbeyq.arg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fvyhtx3v.fsf@ucl.ac.uk>
Accessibility standards cover this area pretty thoroughly.
http://governor.state.tx.us/disabilities/accessibledocs/ has some
information that might be bent to emacs-orgmode's purposes.
On Tue, 23 Apr 2013, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
> >
> >> And I've not only given up trying to convert anybody to Emacs, I have
> >> also given up trying to explain why a dark background with light text is
> >> much better on the eyes. Too much inertia and bad practices out there
> >> unfortunately.
> >
> > On this slightly off-topic subject, an oculist told me the dark
> > background did not really matter, what matters is the contrast.
> > Very high and very low are not good, something inbetween (but
> > he could point to a way to quantify this.)
>
> It is indeed all about contrast and the problem is that, in many
> environments, the lighting of the environment is significantly lower
> brightness than a white background screen. YMMV, of course ;-)
>
> Note that this is for emitting devices as opposed to reflective
> surfaces, such as paper and e-readers, where black on white is better.
>
> Personally, I have problems with my eyes unfortunately and I do need to
> configure systems so that I don't end up with headaches every day.
>
> Off-topic but a very important selling point for Emacs, IMO. It is so
> easy to change colour themes and have results that look good in
> seconds. Contrast this with most other software where it is just plain
> difficult if not impossible to configure the colours as one would
> like. And org mode works very well with most of the colour themes I
> have tried.
>
> Anyway, back to normal programming on this channel! :-)
>
>
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jude <jdashiel@shellworld.net>
Microsoft, windows is accessible. why do blind people need screen readers?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-23 9:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-09 8:10 converting people to Emacs and org-mode 42 147
2013-04-09 8:29 ` Suvayu Ali
2013-04-09 8:47 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-04-13 8:16 ` Karl Voit
2013-04-09 8:46 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2013-04-09 8:51 ` Carsten Dominik
2013-04-09 10:21 ` Moritz Ulrich
2013-04-09 10:30 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2013-04-09 11:05 ` Torsten Wagner
2013-04-22 14:26 ` Eric S Fraga
2013-04-22 15:20 ` Loyall, David
2013-04-22 17:11 ` Bastien
2013-04-22 19:35 ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-04-22 20:03 ` John Hendy
2013-04-23 5:19 ` Achim Gratz
2013-04-23 6:38 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2013-04-22 21:50 ` Samuel Wales
2013-04-23 7:29 ` Carsten Dominik
2013-04-23 9:01 ` OT: Emacs screen colors (was: converting people to Emacs and org-mode) Karl Voit
2013-04-23 9:28 ` converting people to Emacs and org-mode Eric S Fraga
2013-04-23 9:37 ` Jude DaShiell [this message]
2013-04-23 9:48 ` Eric S Fraga
2013-04-09 11:40 ` Bastien
2013-04-09 8:48 ` Carsten Dominik
2013-04-09 9:50 ` Bastien
2013-04-09 10:03 ` Russell Adams
2013-04-09 12:27 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-04-09 15:31 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2013-04-09 16:28 ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-04-12 22:17 ` Eric Schulte
2013-04-09 18:33 ` Loyall, David
2013-04-09 18:42 ` Chris Gray
2013-04-09 14:42 ` Gunnar Wolf
2013-04-09 21:03 ` Marcin Borkowski
2013-04-09 20:59 ` Marcin Borkowski
2013-04-09 22:26 ` John Hendy
2013-04-10 12:03 ` Doug Lewan
2013-04-13 8:43 ` Karl Voit
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-04-09 23:59 42 147
2013-04-10 7:37 ` Bastien
2013-04-10 10:01 ` Suvayu Ali
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