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Re: creating a personal style sheet

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From: Sandy
Date: Nov 6, 2012 10:48AM

> "... trouble reading high contrast text" is interesting. I know about
> low contrast as a problem, but not about high.
>
> Could you explain, with an example please, how your neighbor sees, and
> what settings are used normally? What fixes and accommodations are used?

This is a new problem for him - he has a degenerative illness, I'm not
sure what it is, but until recently his vision was pretty much normal.
So far he isn't using fixes and accommodations for web browsing. He just
started using a white cane.

The glare coming off a white screen overwhelms the text and is starting
to make it invisible for him.

I figure we can spend a little time coming up with a good style sheet,
tinkering with colour combinations and fonts, line-height and sizes,
'til we have something that works for him and then implement it (if I
can figure out exactly how. Any tips are much appreciated). From what I
can tell it would work with wcag compliant sites.

Or maybe it's just a matter of going into the system preferences and
dimming the display, but coming up with a personal style sheet sounds
like a little nerdy fun.

cheers, Sandy