High contrast accessiblity

Hello, I have a question regarding the accessibility features of the editor. I am a low vision user and require high contrast (white-on-black) setting. I am on Windows 7 with the global high contrast mode setting activated. However, when I load the Oxygen editor, the document edit window does not display with high-contrast. The document window shows typical black font on white background, which is not accessible. I've gone into settings to try to change background/font colors, hoping to achieve a high contrast effect to no avail. Any thoughts on why this is occurring and suggestions on how to remedy? Thanks. *regards* Hank D. Gorbsky Internet e-mail: gorbsky@us.ibm.com

Hello, Unfortunately Oxygen does not fully support high contrast themes out-of-the-box. The user interface colors (menus and views) are adjusted accordingly, but the editor colors are fixed, independent on the color theme. However, you should be able to achieve good results, by tweaking a few options: 1. The white background for Text mode can be changed in Options > Preferences, Editor > Edit modes > Text, 'Editor background color'. You will most likely want to change all the other colors from that option page ('Editor caret color', 'Highlight current line', etc). 2. You will also have to change the color of individual tokens (syntax highlight) for XML and other content types in Options > Preferences, Editor > Colors. Select each token (Text, Comment, etc) from the XML subsection and pick an appropriate color. Let us know if you need additional assistance. Regards, Adrian Adrian Buza oXygen XML Editor and Author Support Tel: +1-650-352-1250 ext.202 Fax: +40-251-461482 support@oxygenxml.com http://www.oxygenxml.com On 21.01.2014 16:23, Henry Gorbsky wrote:
Hello, I have a question regarding the accessibility features of the editor. I am a low vision user and require high contrast (white-on-black) setting. I am on Windows 7 with the global high contrast mode setting activated. However, when I load the Oxygen editor, the document edit window does not display with high-contrast. The document window shows typical black font on white background, which is not accessible. I've gone into settings to try to change background/font colors, hoping to achieve a high contrast effect to no avail. Any thoughts on why this is occurring and suggestions on how to remedy? Thanks.
*regards* Hank D. Gorbsky Internet e-mail: gorbsky@us.ibm.com
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