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Accessibility

Brynioch Biniak
Registered User
Join date: 9 Aug 2006
Posts: 1
10-17-2009 14:57
Hi Everyone,

I'm not sure if this is the appropriate forum or not, none of the other forium titles seemed to fit.

Anyways, I would like to see an option in the SL Viewer to use Windows High Contrast 1 to adjust the viewers colour scheme. Basically having the blue buttons in the popups replaces with a black background and yellow text. And anywhere where there is a grey or white background switching that to pure black with yellow text in the menu system or popups.

If anyone knows of another viewer that offers this ability I'd greatly appreciate a point in the right direction. I am legally blind and enjoy SL, however many thigns in SL I simply can't see, like who's sending me an object, inviting me to be a friend, being able to change my own preferences...

Any help would be appreciated.
Argent Stonecutter
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Join date: 20 Sep 2005
Posts: 20,263
10-17-2009 15:06
Try the Emerald viewer, it has a number of themes available.
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Boodie Ballyhoo
Registered User
Join date: 28 Nov 2007
Posts: 7
10-17-2009 20:04
To add to accessibility issues, it surely would be nice if fonts were adjustable throughout all of the viewer components, including notecards, in chat and even on the buttons themselves. Some users prefer a small font, and some need a VERY LARGE font, especially if you are legally blind. I hack an XML file to make SL usable for a couple of specific users. Seems to me that using a scalable font instead of monospace would be beneficial to all. In fact, there IS JIRA out there requesting this. http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-1927