From: "John W. Long" <ng@...>
Date: 2006-12-07T05:06:13+09:00
Subject: Low Vision Stylesheet for Ruby-Lang

Hello Rubyists!

Hugh Sasse has been working with the Ruby Visual Identity Team to 
provide an alternate stylesheet for people with visual impairment. It's 
now available on the Ruby Web site. To access the stylesheet you will 
need to have a browser that supports alternate stylesheets. In Firefox 
you can turn it on by clicking View > Page Style > Low vision. The Low 
vision stylesheet enlarges the text a little and increases the contrast 
in some places, but generally tries to keep the experience the same.

We'd like feedback on this, and contributions of other stylesheets. 
There has been discussion of white on black, or black on yellow colour 
schemes for example. We also don't have any stylesheets for braille 
devices yet.

One thing we should be clear on is that we are not accepting alternate 
stylesheets just to suite a user's stylistic preferences. We would like 
to make the site more accessible to a broader range of people, but the 
general style or brand of the Web site should remain the same. A 
high-contrast stylesheet in the same style as the original with minimal 
changes would be acceptable. Also a stylesheet for braille devices would 
be acceptable. A totally different stylesheet would not be.

If you'd like to help out please contact us on the VIT-Discuss mailing list:

http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/vit-discuss/

-- 
John Long
http://rubyidentity.org