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> > 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? > I only view pages in my color scheme, the only colors I use at all, black background vs bright white. There are browser settings that force that. Also Proximitron can chage things like that.
