[Xerte] Re: Adding CSS colour switcher

Tue Jul 23 17:52:51 BST 2013

My way round it at the moment is to is to recommend people to use chrome browser with the High Contrast plug in which works very nicely. Unfortunately chrome requires the cache to be cleared every time I view a learning object otherwise I get a weird thing where the navigation bar and menu bar are entirely white and navigation is un-clickable as well as invisible.

I rather like the idea of clicking a button to cycle through alternative colour schemes – I need something like the machine in the Eyre Affair which allows you to take stuff into books where what you imagine always works then bring it back as a working piece without having to do the hard stuff inbetween.

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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat @ Pgogy
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: Adding CSS colour switcher

Hello,

The idea of extra styles seems logical.

Came up in another thread earlier - could be a plugin, or could be a php change?

1 colour scheme easy, additional schemes uh oh

On 23 Jul 2013, at 16:51, Alistair McNaught <Alistair.McNaught at HEAcademy.ac.uk<mailto:Alistair.McNaught at HEAcademy.ac.uk>> wrote:
Hi all
From the accessibility testing so far with screenreader users and my own playing around with the browser settings I'm very comfortable that the Xerte toolkits 2.0 is considerably more accessible than the previous Flash version however, I am often coming across practitioners who assume it is less accessible because the "in your face" accessibility options of the Flash output are not there any more. I am currently working on an accessibility statement which will help to address this problem of perception but in the meantime I wonder how easy it would be to build a colour and texts which are?

I'm not a CSS coder; in fact I'm not a coder at all, but I wonder how easy it would be to build an optional CSS plug-in that would allow people three different text sizes (100%, 200%, 400%) and maybe three additional colour schemes - inverted, yellow on black, black on light blue. It's possible quite a lot of people have the CSS skills to do this but would not necessarily know where to plug it into the appropriate file on their Toolkits installation.

Would this be a relatively straightforward thing to do or am I entering dangerous territory? ☺

A

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