White on black for Deaf-Blind

[Gagnon et Thibeault]

Hi Val and Stefan,

    Stefan, don't worry about it.  You always read the docuement maker which 
is black on white.  not smile, but big smile.

    I learn one German word : Hallo.

    Hand waving

    André

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Valerie Sutton" <signwriting at mac.com>
To: "SignWriting List" <sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu>
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 4:56 PM
Subject: [sw-l] White on black for Deaf-Blind


> On Oct 29, 2007, at 1:43 PM, Stefan Wöhrmann wrote:
>
>> Hi Val,
>> excuse my question -- I feel nervous about this idea with black 
>> background
>> of the columnss . Do you want to look the signpuddle screen in the future
>> like it is shown in the attached grafic?
>>
>> I made a screenshot of my SignPuddle screen ...
>>
>> I think this black background of the columns is not that nice at it has 
>> been
>> before ... black on white --
>>
>> Stefan ;-)
>
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> Hello Stefan and Everyone!
> Smile - oh you have a complete misunderstanding!!
>
> This has nothing to do with the way we view SignWriting on the screen for 
> everyday sighted people...you are thinking like SignWriter DOS - I know...
>
> But I am talking about DocumentMaker...creating PDFs of documents...
>
> Have you viewed a long document in DocumentMaker yet?
>
> Can you download this document to tell me if you can read it?
>
> John Chapter 1-3
> http://www.SignWriting.org/library/bible
>
> When you read that document, you will see it is white pages, with black 
> SignWriting symbols...
>
> Or we have some pages with blue SignWriting symbols on white 
> background...or brown SignWriting symbols on a white background...
>
> Well now Steve and Todd are working to give us a choice of any color 
> background for documents...not for reading in everyday SignPuddle, but for 
> PDF documents...we can choose a yellow background for the symbols and make 
> the symbols green if we wish...
>
> Meanwhile, Andre is blind and he has another problem...when Andre opens 
> our email, he has to reverse the screen so he can read our email...that is 
> why sometimes his message will look like yellow on black...at least on my 
> computer...
>
> So in regards to Andre, he cannot see a PDF document that has black 
> symbols on white...so if we give DocumentMaker the possibility to choose a 
> black column, then we could create special PDFs just for the Deaf-Blind...
>
> So I am just trying to help everyone the best I can -
>
> If Andre owned a Mac, then there would be no problem because everything 
> reverses no matter what for Mac users, no matter what the software...
>
> I am looking into finding out about PDFs on Windows to see if there is an 
> auto reversal for the blind...that will be another option...
>
> Val ;-)
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