Hi,
Open discussion really, on the broad subject of accessibility in the user interface.
I'm a developer who's had to consider the use of screen reader/magnification technologies like Zoomtext and JAWS, and accessible colour schemes, when writing Win32 software in the past.
I do know people who need extreme colour contrast in user interfaces due to severe visual impairment, migraine sufferers who cannot work with bright white backgrounds, people on the autistic spectrum or with dyslexia who find it easier to read text on a pastel background. A common one is colour blindness, the most common forms may mean users may find it difficult to differentiate between shades of orange, red, green or brown.
For Firefox derivatives, two browser plugins can help users of websites which don't offer a choice of colour schemes or skins: Greasemonkey and Stylish. With these plugins it's possible for the end user to recolor websites, change fonts, grow/shrink/hide objects and more.
A better answer is if admins/developers can set a theme, colour scheme or "skin" as a default, but allow users to choose an alternative from a list - or even configure their own.
I've been through the Web Designer documentation, through Web Designer, and explored the UI as an end user - and while there are lots of individual layout definitions, CSS rules etc in addition to what looks like a couple of different colour schemes provided out-of-the-box (e.g. a blue one, and a Dell one), there's no option that I can find which would allow an end user to switch between them.
More to the point, I can't see any entry point for configuring a default style (or alternate styles) in the web project.
So has anyone extended the web UI to support skinning, or high contrast / custom colour schemes?
