Re: Bug#706902: bugs.debian.org: Adding an a11y tag?
Alex ARNAUD, on mar. 27 juin 2017 17:44:51 +0200, wrote:
> Le 27/06/2017 à 16:36, Don Armstrong a écrit :
> > On Tue, 27 Jun 2017, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > > Don Armstrong, on lun. 26 juin 2017 19:26:33 -0700, wrote:
> > > > Its one-letter symbol is ⓐ.
> > >
> > > Ah, I hadn't thought about it. I guess it would make sense that it be ♿?
> >
> > I wasn't in the best position to know if the ISA (♿) was the right
> > symbol (because accessibility means more than mobility accessibility and
> > other questions[1]),
Yes, that's sound reasoning :) A quite widely recognized symbol is a
blue circled man
https://wiki.gnome.org/Accessibility?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=logo.png
but it's not in Unicode :) The advantage of the wheelchair is that it's
quite obvious what the intent is.
> The one-letter symbol is more difficult to read for low-vision and blind
> person than a word tag.
There is a word tag for most uses. The one-letter symbol is only used
for the places where an extremely short version is needed.
> For example my speech synthesis (espeak) doesn't
> read the one-letter tag.
I'd say it's a bug that should be reported to the speech synthesis.
Ideally it should be able to pronounce all of Unicode. At least the
common symbols should be pronounceable.
Does it speak the wheelchair ? (♿)
> The size of the one-letter tag is smaller than normal english letters
> with Thunderbird on Debian (maybe also in Firefox)
Yes, because the whole glyph is supposed to be the same size, and the
circle takes room.
Samuel
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