From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from facesaver.epoch.ncsc.mil (facesaver [144.51.25.10]) by tarius.tycho.ncsc.mil (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id mB8JlbZC021697 for ; Mon, 8 Dec 2008 14:47:37 -0500 Message-ID: <493D79D3.8020002@tycho.nsa.gov> Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:47:31 -0500 From: Eamon Walsh MIME-Version: 1.0 To: russell@coker.com.au CC: SELinux List Subject: Re: [RFC] Add color translation support to mcstransd References: <4927839F.4070805@tycho.nsa.gov> <4939C7D8.7020000@tycho.nsa.gov> <4939D171.5090705@tycho.nsa.gov> <200812061441.45294.russell@coker.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200812061441.45294.russell@coker.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: owner-selinux@tycho.nsa.gov List-Id: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov Russell Coker wrote: > On Saturday 06 December 2008 12:12, Eamon Walsh 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 National Security Agency -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@tycho.nsa.gov with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.