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About the tracking mouse pointer: If you go to system settings (appeara=
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section) > workspace effects (Arbeitsfl=E4chen-Effekte), you will find =
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accessibility option including the animations for mouse clicks and magn=
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glass under the mouse cursor (I'm still running 4.13, not sure if those=
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options have been implemented in 5.1 now).=20

Cheers,
Heiko.
Hi,
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I am a visually impaired user. Changing the background to black and h=
ave a
white font is very helpful for me. But many application do not suppor=
t it.
they simply ignore system settings.
I can only see a small area of the screen and therefore the tracking =
mouse
pointer and the circles around the mouse pointer when you press contr=
ol are
wonderful things, available in Windows OS. These are the things which=
would
make life easier.
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thanks
Reinhard
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Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 14:57:32 +0200
Subject: Re: [Kde-accessibility] experimental idea with colour fo=
nts
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3D"us-ascii"
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i somehow made a little kate script ... that is now broken. (i ma=
de some
blurred and normal screen shots, to demonstrate that you can deci=
pher
the
letters if you know the colour code used, despite been impossible=
to see
their shapes)
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I like those ideas, in particular when they can get tested easily.
Katepart
(that means the following works in Kate and KWrite etc.) has an ela=
borated
highlighting [1], which is easy to modify. (This is my first attemp=
t to
create a syntax highlighting file; for sure there is much room for
improvement.)
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1. Download the highlight definitions from http://pastebin.com/GzkH=
7AJb
2. Place it at ~/.kde4/share/apps/katepart/syntax/ (create the synt=
ax
folder if it doesn't exists) under the name coloredtext.xml
3. (Re)start Kate, go to Extra > Highlighting > Markup and select "=
Colored
Text"
4. Download the color scheme from http://pastebin.com/GsVSw3JY and =
save it
anywhere under the name coloredtext.katehlcolor
5. In Kate/KWrite go to Settings > Fonts & Colors, tab "Styles for
highlighting", find Markup/Colored Text at the dropdown (if not sel=
ected)
and load the color definition via "Import" from the downloaded file=
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Now every letter gets its own color. And you can modify the scheme =
as you
want
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Beside from the technical solution I believe it makes sense to defi=
ne the
highlighting carefully. The proof-of-concept scheme is just multico=
lored
without any concept. What I have in mind is to put syllables or rat=
her
phonemes into foreground, and to move less important letters backwa=
rd
(vocals for instance).
But perhaps an individual solution would be even better. For a scie=
ntific
study I would measure eye fixations and highlight those parts later=
that
got special attention, that means a high number or long duration of=
fixations. Unfortunately the resolution and framerate of inbuilt we=
bcams
is not sufficient, as far as I know. So we cannot provide this as a=
generic accessibility tool.
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Cheers,
Heiko.
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[1] http://kate-editor.org/2005/03/24/writing-a-syntax-highlighting=
-file/
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