Disability hostile: many of the pre-installed screensavers trigger migraine
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| xscreensaver (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: xscreensaver
I have set xscreensaver to switch between a large number of the preinstalled screensavers.
My girl friend, a heavy sufferer of migraine, has observed that a large number of these screensavers trigger a migraine attack in her if she doesn't look away immediately. It's especially screensavers involving small, flickering geometric changes with shifting colours.
This makes standard installations a bit hostile towards sufferers of migraine.
Proposed action: The default selection of screensavers to switch between is limited to screensavers which don't trigger a seizure in migraine sufferers.
Maybe some sort of warning should be inserted in the description of those which do.
I suppose contact could be made to some organisation lige migraine.org.uk to ask them if they perceive this to be a problem which ought to be addressed.
| Adam Buchbinder (adam-buchbinder) wrote | #1 |
| Adam Buchbinder (adam-buchbinder) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in xscreensaver: | |
| status: | New → Incomplete |
| Johnathon (kirrus) wrote | #3 |
| Changed in xscreensaver: | |
| status: | Incomplete → Invalid |
Could you list which of these screensavers are preinstalled and troublesome? There are a lot of hacks, and any attempt to pick the headache-unfriendly ones would be pretty subjective.