[Xerte] Re: Adding CSS colour switcher

[Alistair McNaught]

> how people who need to use this stuff know how to use it.

Unfortunately our experience in colleges, work based learning, specialist colleges, adult learning, dyslexia support etc suggest that the majority of learners and indeed the people who support them simply don't know how to do this in the browser. I have had too many conversations with people who think the html5 version is less accessible (!) because it hasn't got the 6 colour drop down option. One college won't use html5 output because their learners use the colour changer drop down but  can't remember how to change the browser settings.

This is all nonsense of course; the browser based options give infinitely more user control. I expound the improved accessibility wherever I go but first impressions are powerful - for better or worse - and I'm often swimming against a tide of user ignorance. A nice friendly "Don't Panic" button would help change stem the flow.

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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 24 July 2013 09:52
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Adding CSS colour switcher

I'd rather leave the browser in control, because that is how people who need to use this stuff know how to use it.

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Alistair McNaught
Sent: 23 July 2013 16:51
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
Subject: [Xerte] Adding CSS colour switcher

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? :)

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