On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 8:41 AM, Tony's Basement Computer < [email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks for links, John. I'll check them both. There is another aspect to > vision impairment that most web based apps introduce their own deficiency, > i.e. contrast. We have some folks whose vision doesn't need enlargement or > magnification because that's not their challenge. Contrast is the issue. > Background colors that are too close in the spectrum to the text colors > result in a blank gray screen for some. Most of the web is designed by > young people who like pretty colors and can't relate to those who don't > watch the Saturday morning cartoons any longer. > > "black on white is good, blue on gray is bad" > > Total agreement. Luckily for me, Chrome allows me to override the CSS with a better style, with more contrast. Some numb skull had cyan on blue. As bad as one Windows user, many years ago, who said she had an unreadable "blue screen". And indeed she did. She actually changed the screen colors to blue characters on blue background. -- The temperature of the aqueous content of an unremittingly ogled culinary vessel will not achieve 100 degrees on the Celsius scale. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
