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Otsikko: Looking for a Theme for the Visually Impaired
Kirjoitti: White Lion - elokuu 23, 2006, 08:05:19 IP
Is there any such animal, or should I just go ahead and try to modify a theme for this purpose?

Otsikko: Re: Looking for a Theme for the Visually Impaired
Kirjoitti: Lazybones - elokuu 24, 2006, 01:18:31 AP
I can't think of one.. However keep in mind there are different types of visually impaired users.

I have a user in my forum who is legally blind (not completely blind), he said the Babylon Theme provides better contrast than the new SMF default and it works well enough for him to read.
Otsikko: Re: Looking for a Theme for the Visually Impaired
Kirjoitti: H - elokuu 24, 2006, 05:58:55 AP
I don't believe there is one. It should be easy to modify the default theme in 1.1 as hardly any text is contained in an image and most colours are in the CSS
Otsikko: Re: Looking for a Theme for the Visually Impaired
Kirjoitti: Lazybones - elokuu 24, 2006, 01:42:12 IP
Lainaus käyttäjältä: huwnet - elokuu 24, 2006, 05:58:55 AP
I don't believe there is one. It should be easy to modify the default theme in 1.1 as hardly any text is contained in an image and most colours are in the CSS

Just don't use fixed size fonts if possible, this allows the user to increase the font size of everything from their browser if need be.
Otsikko: Re: Looking for a Theme for the Visually Impaired
Kirjoitti: White Lion - elokuu 24, 2006, 07:02:13 IP
I have the Babylon theme installed, but the text is too small for one of my VI users.  I thought of modifying the set text sizes in the CSS, but then I thought about the text in the buttons and wasn't entirely sure whether it was CSS controlled or not which would mess them up. 

In addition to the standard and Babylon themes, I have the YABB theme installed and I thought about modifying one if I could and saving it as a theme for visually impaired users.  Instead I thought to ask first if such a theme already existed.  I'd much rather those users had ZoomText, but it's not inexpensive software.  BTW, does anyone know whether SMF is compatible with JAWS (screen reader for the blind)?

Thanks for the help!