Team, I strongly suggest that we create a website that looks like the Apache Open Office interface, and then run a free a11y tool on it. A number of tools are available for use by the public, such as Wave.
On Fri, Nov 22, 2024 at 4:08 PM Keith McKenna <keith.mcke...@comcast.net.invalid> wrote: > michael smith wrote: > > Because my eyesight is not great I have been googling for an answer for > at > > least two years and have come across many complaints about it, and quite > a > > few suggested fixes (that do not work or I cannot figure how to make them > > work). I don't know enough about these kinds of open source/etc > > arrangements to know but is there no one at Open Office or Mozilla or > > wherever who is able to fix this? (Or who can explain why it can't be?) > > > > On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 10:22 PM Craig Russell <apache....@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > >> FWIW, I agree that the black letters on a dark blue background are very > >> hard to read. It would be nice if there were some way to customize the > >> background/font/colors. > >> > >> Craig > >> > >> > >>> On Nov 19, 2024, at 08:39, michael smith <michaelsmit...@gmail.com> > >> wrote: > >>> > >>> Some Open Office command buttons (for instance in the Find/Change tool) > >> are > >>> so dark blue (at least on a mac) that they are nearly unreadable. I've > >>> followed suggestions on the Community Site and also from Googling but > >> none > >>> of it works. Why was such a terrible color contrast chosen and is there > >> any > >>> way I improve it? I'm elderly and eyesight is not good so it's > >> additionally > >>> frustrating. Thank you in advance for any help you can give. > >> > >> Craig L Russell > >> c...@apache.org > >> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >> > >> > > > Here is the Bugzilla entry for this problem. > https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=128498. The Apache OpenOffice® > code-base is quite large and very complex. It is often difficult to > track down whare the code is stored for a particular bug. As the > code-base supports 3 different operating systems, which may well use > different ways of handling a particular problem,going through millions > of lines of code to isolate where macOS handles this can be quite daunting. > > Regards > Keith N. McKenna > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
