- From: Phill Jenkins <pjenkins@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:20:23 -0600
- To: WAI Interest Group <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <OFF9FC72B7.D5C60A56-ON862576CC.00634C3E-862576CC.0064BE91@us.ibm.com>
I'm a low vision user and I usually work with high contrast settings, so both the colour of the links or background images that you define with styles are totally lost. For me, all your links will look the same (something like cyan over black). Sounds to me like a classic problem with the user agent and/or end user settings. The browser clearly knows between visited and non-visted links - and user settings can colour them as they like, Same with local and "open in a new window" links. The developer's style sheets are again just for the average user - clearly not meant for nor should they fit everyone's needs. The same with those simple extra (in my opinion) large font and high contrast style sheets many web sites provide to accommodate some of their users - even providing them does not meet everyone's needs. Most operating systems and browser's allow the user to configure the colours, fonts, and background settings at a very detailed level - putting some of the responsibility on the end user or their accommodations expert. . Regards, Phill Jenkins,
Received on Tuesday, 16 February 2010 18:20:57 UTC