Re: Minutes from 16 November 2000 WCAG WG telecon

At 3:07 PM +0000 11/23/00, Sean B. Palmer wrote:
>  > Let's start with possible. How do you do it now? When you encounter a
>>  page that has a personally impossible background but contains information
>>  you are interested in. What *exactly* do you do to make that page usable
>  > to you?
>Hmmmm. I haven't rally considered the "best" approach for now, but I would
>say that the *first step* is this:-
>a) Turn off backgrounds in browsers (rarely, but if possible)
>b) Use this user style sheet:
>body { background-color: #000000;
>background-image: none; }
>But that is only a little bit of the story. The real problem is converting
>all of the text from a dark color into a light one...that's where the fun
>begins. Sometimes I just print the document out if it's that inaccessible to
>me, which costs a small fortune in printer ink!

Sean, if Opera is an option for you, you will want to look into it.  It
has a nice feature which is easily accessed (a statusbar toggle
button) which allows you to change between "author's style settings"
and "user's style settings" painlessly.  You can set up your settings
however you like, including "ignore background", "ignore fonts",
"linearize tables" (!), and "use _this_ stylesheet", and then switch
back and forth whenever you find a page which doesn't work for you.

I do this myself quite often on a number of web pages which are just
very poorly designed.  It clears them up pretty instantly in cases
where you have, say, white text with cyan letters, or pages which
do not distinguish the followed links from the unfollowed.

Opera currently is only stable on Windows platforms (I think), but
there are Mac, Linux, and other versions in various stages of
development.

--Kynn
-- 
Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com>
http://www.kynn.com/

Received on Thursday, 23 November 2000 11:42:16 UTC