Color-blind themes

When reading on the list that most kde games start to
support themes I had the
idea whether we should think about introducing color-blind
(or similar) themes 
into the games. This might be a nice addition to KDE. 

This probably mainly affects board games where the pieces
are distinguished by 
colors. I suppose color blind people cant play these games
at all. By making 
a theme which replaces the color-coded pieces by geometrical
forms it is 
probably very easy to equip our games with this added
benefit. 

As (partial) color blindness is relatively widespread this
may be a larger 
benefit than we think. 

I dont know whether other diablements are affected by the
games or can be 
tackled to easily. But I though I bring it to attention and
we can discuss 
it.


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On Saturday 17 February 2007 01:15:53 Martin Heni wrote:
> When reading on the list that most kde games start to
support themes I had
> the idea whether we should think about introducing
color-blind (or similar)
> themes into the games. This might be a nice addition to
KDE.

I am certainly open to creating theme variations enhaced for
those with 
color-blindness or in need of enhanced contrast.  Are there
a set of design 
guidlines somewhere for creating graphics for high contrast,
color-blindness, 
etc?

And isn't color-blindness just an inability to see certain
colors, not all of 
them? Better check wp, educate myself.  

Perhaps we should make it a goal to have a high-contrast and
a color-blind 
theme in all KDE svn games before KDE4?

> I dont know whether other diablements are affected by
the games or can be
> tackled to easily. But I though I bring it to attention
and we can discuss
> it.

It would be nice if we could hear from disabled users or
accessibility experts 
on this.

Regards,

Mark
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On Sat, 17 Feb 2007, Martin Heni wrote:

> Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 10:15:53 +0100
> From: Martin Heni <martinheni-online.de>
> Reply-To: KDE games development <kde-games-develkde.org>
> To: KDE games development <kde-games-develkde.org>
> Subject: [Kde-games-devel] Color-blind themes
>
> When reading on the list that most kde games start to
support themes I
> had the idea whether we should think about introducing
color-blind (or
> similar) themes into the games. This might be a nice
addition to KDE.

Excellent point. Seperate accessibility themes may be
necessary but as a
general rule it would be so much better if themes could try
to make use of
both colour and texture or pattern so that the default
themes are more
user friendly out of box.  The extra affordance provided by
textures
benefits _all_ users as is almost always the case with
accessibility
features.  Hopefully this will serve not as a burden but as
another
opportunity for artists to show off their creative flair by
adding subtle
details to their artwork.

(If you ever played Puzzle Bobble you might notice that each
bubble
contains a creature making them somewhat distinguishable by
texture.
Frozen bubble unfortunately did not include bubbles with
patterns but
Monkey bubble* did include ptterns in their default theme.)

-- 
Alan

Monkey bubble
htt
p://home.gna.org/monkeybubble/screenshots.html
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