Re: [WebAIM] MS Word Document and PDF Darkmode

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 <fukushima@glamus.de> 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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