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From: Sandy
Date: Tue, Nov 06 2012 8:37AM
Subject: creating a personal style sheet
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hello webaim,
I would like to create a personal style sheet for use with FireFox. One
of my neighbours has started having trouble reading high contrast text
and I want to help out. I have created lots of stylesheets for web sites
but no personal ones and I am hoping for a few tips.
If I edit userContent-example.css -- for example add these styles to
the body
body {
background-color : #666 ! important;
color : #f9f9e1 ! important;
}
and save it as userContent.css would it then load by default in FireFox
or would it be an available style under the "view" menu?
I want to test this out on my own computer, give it to my neighbour, and
then get rid of it on my machine. Do I delete the userContent.css off
mine? Comment it out?
I am thinking to copy this onto a thumb drive and then put the file on
his hard drive in
programs/Netscape Folder/defaults/profile/CN/chrome
sound right?
Any suggestions, links, tips are welcome!
thanks.
Sandy
From: GF Mueden
Date: Tue, Nov 06 2012 9:54AM
Subject: Re: creating a personal style sheet
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Dear Sandy
"... 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?
Cheers, ===gm==
From: Sandy
Date: Tue, Nov 06 2012 10:48AM
Subject: Re: creating a personal style sheet
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> "... 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
From: Sandy
Date: Wed, Nov 07 2012 7:19AM
Subject: Re: creating a personal style sheet
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>> "... trouble reading high contrast text" is interesting. I know about
>> low contrast as a problem, but not about high.
or it's possible what he needs is white on black instead of black on
white, but described it as "low contrast" instead of "mostly dark".
S.
From: Mike Moore
Date: Wed, Nov 07 2012 8:32AM
Subject: Re: creating a personal style sheet
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Zoom Text or another screen magnifier may also be an option to consider. There are almost unlimited options for adjusting foreground and background color schemes including several good built in ones. The advantage of this solution is that it will work with all applications, instead of only the browser. If he does not need or desire magnification he can set it to 1X.
Sent from my iPad
Mike
On Nov 7, 2012, at 8:19 AM, Sandy < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
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>>> "... trouble reading high contrast text" is interesting. I know about
>>> low contrast as a problem, but not about high.
>
>
> or it's possible what he needs is white on black instead of black on
> white, but described it as "low contrast" instead of "mostly dark".
>
> S.
> > >
From: Ryan E. Benson
Date: Wed, Nov 07 2012 8:36AM
Subject: Re: creating a personal style sheet
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Sandy, have you tried lowering the color contrast on the monitor and/or
starting with one of the high contrast OS themes and tweaking?
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Ryan E. Benson
On Nov 7, 2012 9:19 AM, "Sandy" < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
>
> >> "... trouble reading high contrast text" is interesting. I know about
> >> low contrast as a problem, but not about high.
>
>
> or it's possible what he needs is white on black instead of black on
> white, but described it as "low contrast" instead of "mostly dark".
>
> S.
> > > >
From: Sandy
Date: Wed, Nov 07 2012 8:57AM
Subject: Re: creating a personal style sheet
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> Sandy, have you tried lowering the color contrast on the monitor and/or
> starting with one of the high contrast OS themes and tweaking?
Ryan, the OS themes sound like a good idea. Where do I find those?
And thanks for your help!
Sandy
From: Sandy
Date: Wed, Nov 07 2012 12:15PM
Subject: Re: creating a personal style sheet
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> Zoom Text or another screen magnifier may also be an option to
> consider. There are almost unlimited options for adjusting foreground
> and background color schemes including several good built in ones.
> The advantage of this solution is that it will work with all
> applications, instead of only the browser. If he does not need or
> desire magnification he can set it to 1X.
Mike -- that's a really good idea! thank you.
Sandy