> Kevin Tarr wrote:
>
> Don't know if this was posted before. Haven't read it yet.
>
> http://www.iamapsycho.com/fallout/brin.htm
Julia wrote: 
<<Pretty good, although the choices of color on that page were a bit
much.  I couldn't read it all in one sitting because it hurt my eyes to
look at it that long.
    Julia>>

Being colorblind and surfing the net can be a real pain in the neck sometimes.  So 
many designers choose background and text colors that are difficult for me to read.  
So I have two tricks that help me view their pages: 

First, I use Ctrl-A to select all. (On a Mac, Cmd-A)  Reversing the text by 
highlighting it usually helps. I keep my highlight colors very light -- usually white 
or yellow on purpose.  

If not, there's always the old fall-back of copying and pasting the entire page into a 
text reader like MSWord, then selecting everything and changing the color to black on 
a white background.  I do this often enough that I designed a one-click macro for the 
process on my home computer. 

The other option is one I don't use:  Configure your printer to print without the 
background (or graphics).  You'll just get formatted text.  Wastes lots of paper, 
which is why I don't do that!

There's my unsolicited 2 cents.  Anybody else have this problem or an innovative 
solution to share?

Jon

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