Text/Background Colors in Netscape

[David Risner]

On Tue, 3 Dec 1996, Rich Harrington wrote:

>    We have two publically accessable Internet terminals, running Windows
> 3.11 with Direct Access for Windows as the shell, and Netscape locked up
> with IKIOSK.  One of the things I disabled with IKIOSK was the
> Options/General Preferences... menu.  After all, I didn't want anyone
> getting in there and changing the colors to black on black or something.  So
> it's permanently set to display the page the way it was written.

What do you for accessibility for those who need to have high-contrast
displays or low-brightness displayed to see what's on the screen?

Personally, I always have the override on because of the prevalence of
forced white backgrounds on the net which cause pain to my eyes (and my
sinuses to clog up and tears to come out of my eyes....).  I don't
understand why people have to change the background anyways except in
very specialized cases.

Why don't you disable the checkboxes on the dialog box for colors so
nobody can change the pre-defined colors but allow people to use the
override document colors check box?  This way everybody can be happy.

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