Thread Subject: note for focus cursor

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From: Gregg Vanderheiden
Date: Wed, Sep 12 2007 12:45 PM

At the very close of the meeting - I noticed that this provision does talk
about "without moving the cursor". Thus knowledge of the cursor WOULD be
required as Sean had identified. (apologies Sean). I have edited the note
below to include his comment (I think).



I also put a generic note for those who are not designing software.



* NOTE: A focus cursor that is visually locatable by people (familiar
with what the focus cursor would look like) who have 20/20 vision at 3.5
times the typical viewing distance without moving the cursor is sufficient.
* NOTE: Since computer software would be displayed on unknown screen
sizes: for computer software a focus cursor that is visually locatable by
people (familiar with the cursor) who have 20/20 vision at 2.5 meters when
software is displayed on a 38 cm (15 inch) diagonal screen at 1024 x 768
pixels resolution, without moving the cursor is sufficient.










Gregg

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