Re: hplip and use of the "driver plugin"
On Sunday 04 December 2016 14:55:10 rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> On Sunday, December 04, 2016 06:50:17 AM Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > On Saturday 03 December 2016 20:14:21 Jape Person wrote:
> > > I
> > > have a horrible time reading this stuff through a browser interface.
> >
> > Yes, sorry. :-( I have a horrible time with archives being illegible in
> > browsers - but I thought that that was a problem restricted to the
> > partially sighted: the fully sighted can see them, and I have been told
> > that screen readers for the blind can handle them fine.
>
> I'm curious as to what the problem is? I mean, I don't have much of a
> problem, but I use a legible font
Archives tend ot oevr-ride my choice of font.
> and use <ctrl>+ to increase the font size
> to a comfortable size (on my 32" monitor), and the colors are my preferred
> black on a white background (as opposed to a light color on a dark
> background-- which, among other things, some applications or websites still
> do some things wrong when they interpolate colors for <can't recall the
> phrase, but when they scale fonts>.
>
> The user interface isn't ideal (I mean, too many choices, I imagine a non-
> sighted person might get frustrated listening to all the choices).
>
> And, in general, I'd prefer to see several posts from the same thread on
> one page rather than paging for each post....
>
> But, is there something else, and which is the biggest problem for
> non-sighted or partially sighted people?
That varies from person to person, which makes things difficult for those
trying to help.
Speaking personally, I need a denser darker font with much more spacing.
Making it bigger indeed helps - but not as much as having it in my email
client and fully controlling the font! Archives seem to override any
settings I may have put in my browser, and use a very thin font which i
cannot succeed in over-riding.
And I need things broken up and with lots of space. I achieve this in my
email client by changing the colour of the bits I don't really need to see,
and simply not reading large blocks of text. Archives are harder, but break
up better sometimes than others - perhaps because of the originating email
client.
I think the extent of my own expertise, or lack of it, in controlling my
browser comes into it. Certainly, having had a good look now, things seem to
have improved since I last tried do much with archives. I've changed? The
browser has changed?? The archives have changed?? My DTE global controls
have changed??
Add on the having to click through all the time, which you mention, and it
becomes a very tedious experience. But a LOT better than nothing!
Lisi
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