Russell Coker wrote: > On Saturday 06 December 2008 12:12, Eamon Walsh <ewalsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> A screen shot of a sample application that uses the color translations >> can be seen at: >> http://people.freedesktop.org/~ewalsh/mcscolor_screenshot.png >> > > That's interesting, the yellow/green colour scheme is a little difficult to > read though. > > Are there any plans for making sure that it's accessible? I expect that even > if the default configuration has no colour combinations that are bad for > colour-blind people, the first thing that would happen is for people to > immediately start adding them if there is no clear documentation about what > not to do. > Choosing appropriate color combinations is the responsibility of the people making the color policy. > Also what about blind people? Can this extra data be displayed in such a way > that braille and speech-synthesis programs access it? > This would be the responsibility of the accessibility engine in the application, for example by inserting some status notification when the text color changes. I don't think this is a real issue though, because if a speech synthesis or braille reader is outputting the security context text in the first place, the user will know the classification. -- Eamon Walsh <ewalsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> National Security Agency -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.
