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 ;)
Rob - I was misreading how the template works. Having looked again after
reading Tony's email, I see that I took the first page as being the only
complete one. And that is white on not very dark blue. But the third page,
once I interpret it correctly, is indeed yellow on black.
I'm afraid that I did (unconsciously) exactly what I often do. I shy off
reading things that are uncomfortable to read, and the first page is
unpleasant for me to read. Because of Tony's email I started again at the
end (the third slide) which has none of the painful background.
I stand corrected, and will simply close my eyes during the initial,
unimportant, title and first pages.
Lisi
