On Saturday 24 Mar 2007 13:22, Rob Smith wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 10:09 +0000, Philip Stubbs wrote:
> > * Dr Adam J Trickett (adam.trickett@???) wrote:
> > > My advice, and that of the RNIB and my University where I trained is
> > > the following.
> > >
> > > * Black or dark background
> > > * Pale and/or yellow text
> > > * Large sans-serif font
> > > * No more than three or four points per slide
> > > * No transition effects or other such non-sense
> > > * No text over a background image or pattern: plain background
> >
> > Based on these recomendations, maybe a LUG template could be
> > produced. People don't have to use it, but those that don't fancy
> > spending lots of time deciding what font/colour to use can start
> > with a reasonable default.
>
> Well as a first attempt I've made a quick template:
>
> http://bob-lad.org/download/HantsLUG-template.odp
>
>
> Works best in openoffice.org-impress, but I believe other presentation
> packages are available ;)
Thanks, Rob. But may I make 2 comments? The background is not flat and
uniform and would be tiring and difficult to read from (<quote> No text over
a background image or pattern: plain background</quote>). I'm afraid for
those of us who are visually challenged plain means plain. Also the
background is too pale. (<quote> Black or dark background</quote>) I'm
afraid that dark really has to mean dark. The idea is maximum contrast.
That is one of the reasons why I personally prefer black on white - it is
less open to adaptation by the able-eyed brigade.
But I am very grateful that this is being taken so seriously.
Lisi
