Online Help quirks

[qwerty]

Already having said, that I'm not very happy with the online help variant. Now I have another issue which might well simply be caused by my age. The contrast of the index at the left is very, very poor. I can not read it unless I zoom in (luckily with my Mac that's quite easy). So Sparxians, could you please hold your feat under the table when your marketing guys ask for a new CI and just keep the contrast in the browser at a level so handicapped people can also read what they need to read? Thanks a bunch!

q.

P.S. Next time they are asking: send them back to Golgafrincham.

[Glassboy]

It looks fine to me old man :-)

The contrast ratio is 5.32:1 which is not terrible (WCAG 2.0 AA) but it could be much better (7:1 for WCAG 2.0 AAA).

[qwerty]

I can't say I loved that Mickeysoft help GUI. But the contrast there was simply optimal (black against white). is light blue on white in a really tiny font. Without zoom this is unreadable. Well, I'm not shedding any tears. Not even sighing any more. I need to try this Visual Paradigm.

q.

[Glassboy]

I can't say I loved that Mickeysoft help GUI. But the contrast there was simply optimal (black against white). is light blue on white in a really tiny font. Without zoom this is unreadable. Well, I'm not shedding any tears. Not even sighing any more. I need to try this Visual Paradigm.

I don't know about your fruity browser but it should give you the option to override a site's styles.  Make it what ever you like.

[RoyC]

Simply press Ctrl and roll the mouse wheel to zoom in. I don't think you can change the text colour, because the Help is a set of externally formatted files. Submit a feature request to ask our web masters if they might change the generated font and colour?

[Glassboy]

There are certainly extensions for Chrome that allow you to override a site's formatting with your own.  I suspect qwerty is using Safari tho', which is much like a modern web browser :-)

[qwerty]

It's Firefox (in my Parallels) Windoze environment. With Safari it's quite easy to alter the font size, but even there I would have the need to increase it each time the page is loaded the first time. I would expect to see a help (hence the name!) page in a format that is helpful and not in a way that needs help itself.

q.