Re: [O] converting people to Emacs and org-mode

[Jude DaShiell]

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 <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Eric S Fraga <address@hidden> 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 <address@hidden>
Microsoft, windows is accessible. why do blind people need screen readers?