GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 608231
Large Cursor For Low Vision
Last modified: 2017-06-07 01:45:53 UTC
Provide extra large large cursor size for low vision accessibility. The largest value is 42 right now. Perhaps gnome-mouse-properties accessibilty panel might have an option for extra large cursor size with high contrast.
You can use the "Zoom"/Magnifier feature of GNOME Shell, which might be more useful than a bigger cursor. Is this appropriate compared to changing the cursor size?
Arky, can you please respond to comment#1 ?
The comment #1 doesn't address the users with partial vision. It is always good idea to have super sized (>42) and color contrasted cursor available
I have responded to this bug in comment #3. Any update on this bug.
*** Bug 683299 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Seems like a reasonable thing to add to the Seeing section, assuming that there is a need for it. Can someone from a11y comment?
(In reply to comment #6) > Seems like a reasonable thing to add to the Seeing section, assuming that there > is a need for it. This is loosely connected to https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=596386 it would be nice to have some settings. What are your plans so far?
*** Bug 721250 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 665907 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This one has been hanging around for a very long time to remain unconfirmed. I would like to second Arky's request. This is a pretty basic necessity--not only for those with diminished vision, but also for people who have large displays that aren't directly tied to a dpi setting (like a projector). I am volunteering to make the fix if the maintainers agree to let me add it.
(In reply to comment #10) > This one has been hanging around for a very long time to remain unconfirmed. I > would like to second Arky's request. > > This is a pretty basic necessity--not only for those with diminished vision, > but also for people who have large displays that aren't directly tied to a dpi > setting (like a projector). > > I am volunteering to make the fix if the maintainers agree to let me add it. That's great! Thank you. Thirded.
If someone will confirm this as a bug, I will get started. Thx. JS
Hi ! I brought this bug to the a11y team meeting and we consider that, of course, this is a bug and the pointer size should be configurable. Also, asking questions from duplicated bug #665907, we don't consider that it is a good idea the establishment of a relationship between the mouse pointer size and the text size or the high contrast theme. However, the high contrast theme or the high contrast should change the pointer color potentially. We rely in Alan's decision, and design team in general, for defining how the setting must be. We think that Alan' suggestion for a section in the Seeing section of the Universal Access panel seems a good place for the mouse pointer size setting. I personally think that maybe a link to this section in Mouse & Touch panel (similar to Input Source in the Keyboard panel) could be a good addition.
Sorry Allan for mispelling your name ;-)
Prior art Windows: http://www.isunshare.com/windows-10/3-ways-to-change-mouse-pointer-size-and-color-in-windows-10.html MacOS: http://etc.usf.edu/techease/4all/vision/how-do-i-increase-the-size-of-the-cursor-in-mac-os-x/ The options would be: - Drop-down or separate dialogue showing the different options - 24px, 36px and 48px, like Windows, or also 64px and 96px?
Created attachment 347378 [details] [review] universal-access: Add Cursor Size selection dialogue
Created attachment 347379 [details] [review] universal-access: Add Cursor Size selection dialogue
Fixed for GNOME 3.26 Attachment 347379 [details] pushed as 922c658 - universal-access: Add Cursor Size selection dialogue
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