Accessibility: Stand alone option for Color inversion
Feature summary
Presently the option to invert colors is buried under zoom and could only be turned on if zoom has been turned on. which leads to a lot of complications, being a visually impaired person myself as i could only read text over darker backgrounds and also consider other users with a similar condition but could only read over light backgrounds something that cannot be expected to be consistent by default on most applications and websites where in the ability to invert colors heavily improves usability.
For example consider the Gnome onboarding process on distros like Fedora (i.e., the interface that presents itself to a new user after fresh installation to setup network, create user accounts, etc., ) which by default uses a light theme which makes it extremely hard on the eyes and makes it harder to set things up considering lack of visual clarity (because of the nature of disability) or in some cases without any assistance.
Also consider the fact that new users might not always be familiar with the existing shortcuts and features available. As such, users would special needs would most likely start by searching for accessibility and would expect to find, enable the tools they need generally within one or two clicks.
Again speaking from my own experience to re-iterate the importance of such easy access. Whenever I setup a new distro the first thing I look for is Accessibility > Zoom and color inversion. If the environment uses a light theme by default it makes it harder on my eyes as a result before I've gotten used to Gnome interfaces and familiarize myself with shortcuts it would take me sometimes hours to just get these accessibility features enabled, sometimes requiring help from someone else. This would be the general case for someone seeking an accessibility tool or they just require it for general use on either case these features should be more discoverable and easy to get started with
How would you like it to work
Color correction has a very major role in accessibility as such the options buried under zoom must be extracted out and should be offered as a standalone feature under org.gnome.desktop.a11y
instead of org.gnome.desktop.a11y.magnifier.invert-lightness
. And should be available throughout the desktop even through the onboarding process
Also the name should be modified into something more easily comprehensible to an end user. Name such as Color Inversion
or Color Correction
would be appreciated
Relevant links, screenshots, screencasts etc.
This feature also requires a more standard shortcut for wich an issue has already been created under Gnome-Settings-Daemon