Charlie Owen - Mailbag: Will you make it so you don't necessarily need glasses or perfect vision to see most of the visual elements?

Friday, April 06, 2007

Mailbag: Will you make it so you don't necessarily need glasses or perfect vision to see most of the visual elements?

Accessibility is pretty important to us, and we want to make Windows Media Center easy to use for visually impaired folks. The default experience in Windows Media Center makes your digital media much more accessible to start with compared to Windows Media Player, iTunes or Zune -- because everything is bigger (your album art, the text, selectable items, etc.). There are some high contrast accessibility features you can turn on which make it even easier to read and navigate Windows Media Center if you are vision impaired. Get to them via Tasks > Settings > General > Visual and Sound Effects > Color Scheme. Here is what they look like.

High Contrast - White

High Contrast Black

Categories: Mailbag | Windows Media Center | Accessibility | Comments [1] |

| Posted on Friday, April 06, 2007 4:40:50 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

Saturday, April 07, 2007 3:07:51 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

In these screenshots you provided, the problem of not being able to see the MCE clock has still not been solved. I think there is a huge range of folks that use Media Center. From people who have perfect 20/20 vision to people who are legally blind and to people somewhere in the middle.

I think the normal Media Center interface is currently only geared to the folks with perfect vision when it should be geared to those people in the average population with average vision. Not perfect but FAR from legally blind: people with nearly perfect vision.

Jaxim

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