Accessibility for Sight impaired : A 'fix' for fonts not scaling

[musikBear]

Enhancement Summary

Suggest using mouse-rollover to create a large hint in a specified position on screen.

Justification

Accessibility for Sight impaired. The biggest issue for all Sight impaired users are the fonts used in menus and bars. LMMS fonts are not readable.

Explanation

By chance i got this idea that could be a 'fix' for qT fonts not being scaleable on our UI. It is already partly implemented. If we have a named block in songeditor and let mouse roll-over that block, this happens: The blocks name is shown in a mouse-hint next to the block. The blocks name is not readable The Hint is readable! My thought was that is we made this roll-over/ rest feature globally for all text-objects like here for the Samples in folder Flack Then it would no be an issue that lmms own fonts are absurdly small and absolutely impossible to read. The sight-impaired would instead read the hint next to the un-readable item Some examples:

Mockup

Used in Menu| File

Used in Piano-roll | Note-selector

Used on an instrument UI (is that possible?)

As a sight-impaired user, i would then only look at the hints, not the actual lmms-text. I would only drag the mouse down over the tiny text, but read what was inside the hints, then click in the menu, without actually reading anything in it. The feature could be de-selected in Settings for those that did not want those hints, but even users with decent eyes says they have to lean over to read lmms' fonts, so perhaps this hint-feature would have more general interest. The size of the actual hints would best be a CSS thing, that would make the feature ..scaleable (pi).

[michaelgregorius]

Wouldn't this rather be a job for the built-in accessibility tools of the operating system, e.g. the magnifier?

I think it might be confusing for user with better eyesight to have everything they read repeated to them via tool tips that are not even tool tips. An what about items that have usable tool tips which explain the purpose of an element? They cannot have two tool tips.

For all elements shown above except for the song editor block it should already be possible to increase their font size.

[musikBear]

I think it might be confusing for user with better eyesight to have everything they read repeated to them via tool tips that are not even tool tips

That why i wrote de-selectable in Settings. Only those who has issues reading lmms' font, would invoke the feature.

a job for the built-in accessibility tools of the operating system

It is quite difficult/ annoying to use. You can try it your self. Just hold win-key and press + n times (win-key and esc to get out) At least in win10 there is only 2 options: zoomed == 200% (or more) Not zoomed == 100% OFCAUSE MS should have made it 100+10 pr press, but ..No 200% is minimum.... 🙄 Not lmms' fault, but Navigating inside lmms at 200% is confusing to say at least Constant scrolling searching for opened items, but then the item searched for is behind and not in view at all -its a drag You will find your self constantly toggle between zoomed and zoomed out. The usage becomes cumbersome. After ½ h you quit. Its not fun. Its just a constant reminder of your handicap ..

tool tips which explain the purpose of an element

That "What is this" feature was removed, so is the qMark in the tool-line. Its gone.

[DomClark]

I think effort would be better spent fixing the underlying font issues rather than implementing a workaround. @michaelgregorius has done a lot of work towards this (as he alludes to in his comment) - see recent discussion in #2510.

Also, as I mentioned in #5240 (although there it was in reference to file dialogs), I don't think it's LMMS's responsibility to work around poorly designed OS features. If you want a better magnifier, there are numerous third-party programs specifically designed to do this. LMMS, while it should be accessible as possible to as many users as possible, is not an accessibility tool.

[michaelgregorius]

Can this issue be closed @musikBear?