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From: Miriam Fukushima
Date: Apr 18, 2023 6:12AM

Hi Milan,

thank you so much for your answer!

So do I understand ist correctly that MS Word only changes black text to
white and white background to black and none of the other color or
formatting settings?

Regards Miriam

On 18/04/2023 13:22, Milan Regec wrote:
> Hey, Miriam,
>
> to have document compatible with "dark-mode" I would stay away from
> playing with backgrounds and text colors in Word to cater to the
> dark-mode specifically (though you definitely can use colors when
> creating your document). Also, outlining text is IMHO the worst
> approach of all.
>
> Adobe Acrobat has simple accessibility setting allowing replacing
> document colors - the default setting is white text on black
> background, but user can tweak this according to his needs.
>
> It indeed does not change the color of graphical elements, however you
> can mitigate almost all of the problems with this:
>
> * use background colors for any elements that have text over them
> that provide sufficient contrast in both cases - if the text is
> black or white
> * as much as possible use vector graphics elements, Adobe can change
> color of these according to your accessibility preferences (the
> checkbox is labeled "Change the color of line art as well as text")
>
>
> While researching the answer I also stumbled upon the fact, that Adobe
> Color has recently released Accessibility Tools
> <https://color.adobe.com/create/color-accessibility> in their website,
> allowing the creation of "color-blind" safe color-pallets with ease in
> a tool that designers are familiar with.
>
> Hope it helped,
>
> Milan
>
>
> On April 18, 2023, Miriam Fukushima < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
>  I was wondering if there are any ressources on how to create
> documents in MS Word or and also export them as PDFs so that when
> users have dark mode enabled, the documents and PDFs are still
> easily readable.
>
>  As far as I understand, MS Word just switches background color
> and Text, so you should use the MS Word formatting tools to make
> sure MS Word /can/ change the colors.
> But are there any guidelines on what to do or not to do when
> creating documents or which settings to set?
> Or are there any ressources on what is changed into what or by
> which criteria?
>
> What about text on graphical background? A lot of company designs
> have their own backgrounds, headers and footers.
> If I have text in front of a more complex background, then that is
> probably not changed but the text will be, so it becomes very
> likely unreadable.
> But if I integrate the text into the graphic, to make sure it
> stays readable, then it's not accessible as text anymore.
> Or is it a solution to outline text? But I could imagine some
> customers being highly opposed to that look.
>
> Are there any settings to set when exporting to PDF or any
> guidelines or best practices on how to create PDFs for light and
> dark mode?
>
> If not, do you have any experiences with this topic and found best
> practices for yourself?
>
> Thank you so much for the help!
>
> Kind regards, Miriam
>
>
>
>
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