±«Óãtv

BBme(?) ±«ÓãtvMe? BBSee, something along those lines?

ZOOT....because it should ZOOT every need

Trevor....or Colin.

Ooooh, I quite like Trevor.

And the play on C / see. Maybe ±«Óãtv-it. BBsee-it. ±«Óãtv-I.T.

Or is that to clever for Trevor?

How about a selection of Ouch! users being given the chance to test the prototype? Is that possible?

Beta testing, impossible to iron out all problems without it. Make the source code available so we can tweak it to suit our needs then maybe send it back in to roll out across the board.

Call it P.A.N.E.L. People And Net Enabling Line
Trevor's not bad either.

Tweak Your Screen

I like auntie's. Or maybe Tweaker?

"Make the source code available" then it can be called;

Fiddle with your Bits

Pimp my page.

Textersize.

Screen tweaker.

OI, CLICK ON THIS!

Well, there's been some real smileworthy name suggestions so far. :-D

But I can't help feeling it's a little like being asked to find a suitable brand name for a new biscuit without being able to taste the thing first....

Sounds interesting (like the sound of the names that use the "C" as "see"; is it going to be similar to the toolbar that techdis are using? - I've been impressed with that & it seems to work with all the browsers I've tested it with.

I'm quite taken with Trevor.

The problem with the names using "C" is that accessibility is only partly about seeing, and future developments may include improvements for screen-readers or Braille output devices. The name has to reflect the fact it's about access for all, not just visual changes.

How about The Enabler? Accessoriser? A-Bar?

"Special Help Internet Transformer"

...or perhaps not.

The Designation Toolbox?

It has to be obvious or many people won’t realise its function. Why not have it as it is now (or similar) on the top right of the Ouch Blog page?
/ouch/blogs.shtml

How about just simply 'enable' as a name? After all, it will 'enable' many to be able to access the sites.

your view/yourview
custom view
adjust layout

2BC=to be see

±«ÓãtviPass

If they do pick Trevor, I'll expect Auntie Beeb to cough up some dosh. A cheque's acceptable...

They can have ZOOT for free, then I don't have to declare any additional income.

Your ±«Óãtv

±«Óãtv Slate

How about, wait for it, "The ±«Óãtv accessibility tool"

If you want something jazzy, "Bitzy" - ±«Óãtv (makes) it (ea)zy - OK so the last word is spelt wrong...

Trevor appears to be the "People's Choice" so far...

25. At 01:44am on 09 Feb 2010, hossylass wrote:

"Trevor appears to be the "People's Choice" so far..."

Great, an accessibility control that isn't accessible because no one will know/understand what "TREVOR" means - as I said, why not just call it what it is?...

±«Óãtv4U

#27. At 4:45pm on 09 Feb 2010, just_my_opinion wrote:

"±«Óãtv4U"

Hmm, is that the new OU TV channel that's going to share air time with ±«Óãtv4?...

TweaKit . It is simple and defines what it is doing as a kit, much like a personal tool kit.

As long as you don't spell it TweeKit

Call it the "Ouch!" button

Any combination of Page, Options, Custom, Settings...

Page Settings
Custom Page
Page options

Viewing Help
Customize
Additional Options

I'll expect the royalties by cheque.

I'm intrigued to see the tool and how it works. And Trevor is a catchy name and as meaningful as JAWS (the screenreader).

But if I were struggling to read a page on the ±«Óãtv site I'd probably just head for the text-only version where you have a lot of control over how it can be viewed. Has the tool an advantage over this?

ReadEasy?
ReadEasier?
EasyRead?

Is 'Accessible' often used because these improvements/customisations help not just people who are _visually_ impaired? If so, BBSee etc and my suggestions above may not be suitable. Trevor is nice, amusing, people's choice, but not immediately obvious as a tool. However, it could be used as a minor part of the branding.

Er, isn't the tool described just "a stylesheet", the likes of which have been around for years...?

"A meeting was held yesterday about a name"

Dear Ouch, could you please have a meeting to debate whether you should institute a policy that "emails will be answered within 4 working days", please.

I have to say that's a superb effort, a ton of hard work! Two points that need raising:

1. Not everyone wants to make the default text size bigger, an option to reduce text size a notch from the default would be appreciated. Luckily I know I can use my browser to resize anyway, but not everyone is aware, or capable, of doing that.

2. Please make link text in a contrasting colour to plain text to help us colourblind folks out. Most linked text is underlined (good) but not all (bad), and contrasting colours help us to identify them. This excludes main navigation as that's out of context to ordinary content.

Rant over!

what about @1, because the idea is to make everyone at one with the information?

Another suggestion - 'all 4 1'

sounds really great. does that mean we can actually put in our optimal screen settings easily? Instead of the usual limited range. The idea of really personalising sounds good

I've thought about it and decided that My previous suggestions are too abstract. So, what about 'The Change Me Tool' - 'Change Me' button at top of page? It's not 'disability'- specific, has no negative connotations (as 'accessibility' etc could have) and there is no doubt what it is there for.

P.S. I can be available if you want me as head of marketing!!

Click Toolbox ( or use)CT

Someone prob already said this, but how about just calling it "page format"? with a written/ spoken passover that explains?

Howz about: Spoonibility or Spoonaid or Morespoon or Spoonful or just Spoon?

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How about "Cool Tool?"

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Steal a bit from the word accessibility,and you would be left with "Sibil" I think that may be fine?.

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Damon,

Do you have any more information on the development of this ‘whizzy new accessibility tool’, where a ‘new control panel will be rolled out across the entire ±«Óãtv website - from messageboards to news and iPlayer so you can personalise everything’?

Could you give the ±«Óãtv website users any indication at all of when it will be finalized, given that the prototype was already being tested in February?

I’m sure this would be of great help to the many users struggling, myself included, with the default format of the whole website, and even more so particularly after the recent changes to the new message boards.

However, if the enabling of this tool is still far off in the future, would it not be possible to implement the current Ouch! one all over the ±«Óãtv site in the interim?

I’ve seen that it can be used for the whole of the Ouch! site, not just their MBs, and it is also available on the ±«Óãtv Accessibility Standards & Guidelines pages , offering the users a choice of 3 font sizes and 4 background colours via a very easy-to-use tool in the top right-hand corner of the page.

At the moment, users struggling with all the new MB formats are having to rely on changing their viewing of them by either substantially adapting their general browser settings (which then affects all the web pages they visit), and/or downloading all kinds of other browsers with various add-ons, e.g. NoSquint in Firefox, to name but one, to suit their needs. These options are not available to all, however, for a variety of reasons.

Making sure that at least one of these accessibility tools is available to all users as soon as possible would fit perfectly with the remit I have seen described by Nick Reynolds in his blog on the messageboard changes, which is I understand the basis for all the recent changes, namely that ‘there are bigger things that we are trying to do - if ±«Óãtv Online is connected up better rather than being a disconnected series of sites then that may mean that more people will visit it, which in turn that more people may visit a particular message board, which would be a benefit.’

I've asked Nick Reynolds about this on his blog, but he says he has no further information to give me on this at the moment.

Katy

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toolaid is nice and simple and easily remembered and also easy to type