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Ubuntu should be accessible to everybody, including the visually impaired. The current state of the ''gnome-accessibility-themes'' package is not acceptable.

You will see that some menu entries and applications are fairly 
complete, while others only partially so. [[http://people.ubuntu.com/~henrik/images/contrast-icons.png|This image]] shows openoffice, 
which is the worst offender not using any high contrast icons at all, 
behind gedit which is complete. There is a bug filed against OpenOffice on this [[https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org2-amd64/+bug/27191|here]].

The Ubuntu artwork team should help better this situation. Install the ''gnome-accessibility-themes'' package and get to work!


== Resources ==
Jakub Steiners original high contrast theme with svgs :http://jimmac.musichall.cz/stuff/high-contrast.tar.bz2. Jakub recommends a 48x48 target size.

Also by Jakub Steiner - a small howto on designing high contrast icons. Might be a good base for some style guidelines: http://jimmac.musichall.cz/doc/high-contrast/html/index.xhtml

== Testing ==

In his icon guide Jakub recomends the icons be tested by bluring them. This is an example a 15px Gassian blur was applied to an image from the icon development page:

{{attachment:blur.png}}

And here the image was made gray scale and then blured:

{{attachment:desaturate+blur.png}}

== Responsible ==
None yet.