Re: [RFC] Add color translation support to mcstransd

[Eamon Walsh <ewalsh@tycho.nsa.gov>]

Russell Coker wrote:
> On Saturday 06 December 2008 12:12, Eamon Walsh <ewalsh@tycho.nsa.gov> wrote:
>   
>> A screen shot of a sample application that uses the color translations
>> can be seen at:
>> http://people.freedesktop.org/~ewalsh/mcscolor_screenshot.png
>>     
>
> That's interesting, the yellow/green colour scheme is a little difficult to 
> read though.
>
> Are there any plans for making sure that it's accessible?  I expect that even 
> if the default configuration has no colour combinations that are bad for 
> colour-blind people, the first thing that would happen is for people to 
> immediately start adding them if there is no clear documentation about what 
> not to do.
>   

Choosing appropriate color combinations is the responsibility of the
people making the color policy.


> Also what about blind people?  Can this extra data be displayed in such a way 
> that braille and speech-synthesis programs access it?
>   

This would be the responsibility of the accessibility engine in the
application, for example by inserting some status notification when the
text color changes.

I don't think this is a real issue though, because if a speech synthesis
or braille reader is outputting the security context text in the first
place, the user will know the classification.

-- 
Eamon Walsh <ewalsh@tycho.nsa.gov>
National Security Agency


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