RE: phoebus byte-monitor and accessibility

["Pearson, Matthew via Tech-talk" <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

Sounds good. We’ve started to use text in the LED widgets, for the same reason. Use of color alone to distinguish a state is poor UI design (and our users have told us so).

 

Cheers,

Matt

 

From: Pierrick Hanlet <hanlet at fnal.gov>
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2026 1:45 PM
To: Pearson, Matthew <pearsonmr at ornl.gov>; tech-talk at aps.anl.gov
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: phoebus byte-monitor and accessibility

 

Thanks Matt, Perhaps I'll make a feature request. Cheers, Pierrick On 2/13/26 12: 39, Pearson, Matthew wrote: [EXTERNAL] – This message is from an external sender Hi, Not exactly what you want, but there are the bit labels you can add. Those

Thanks Matt,
Perhaps I'll make a feature request.
Cheers,
Pierrick

On 2/13/26 12:39, Pearson, Matthew wrote:

[EXTERNAL] – This message is from an external sender

Hi,

 

Not exactly what you want, but there are the bit labels you can add. Those are static text, but I think it’s possible to modify the text via a rule or a script.

 

Or, an ugly way to do this is to overlay the text on the widget, and use visibility rules on the text.

 

For the LED widgets there is a built in way to do this. I guess it would be useful for the byte monitor too.

 

Or, perhaps lay out normal LED widgets side-by-side, so it looks like a byte monitor.

 

Cheers,

Matt

 

From: Tech-talk <tech-talk-bounces at aps.anl.gov> On Behalf Of Pierrick Hanlet via Tech-talk
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2026 1:29 PM
To: tech-talk at aps.anl.gov
Subject: [EXTERNAL] phoebus byte-monitor and accessibility

 

Greetings all, I'd like to display 0/1 in each bit of the byte monitor widget for accessibility reasons. Is there a way to do this? Thank you, Pierrick -- Pierrick Hanlet Fermi National Accelerator Accelerator Front End Controls +1-630-840-5555

Greetings all,

I'd like to display 0/1 in each bit of the byte monitor widget for 

accessibility reasons. Is

there a way to do this?

Thank you,

Pierrick

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Pierrick Hanlet

Fermi National Accelerator

Accelerator Front End Controls

+1-630-840-5555 -- lab

+1-312-687-4980 -- mobile

"Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right" -- Henry Ford

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Pierrick Hanlet

Fermi National Accelerator

Accelerator Front End Controls

+1-630-840-5555 -- lab

+1-312-687-4980 -- mobile

"Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right" -- Henry Ford