The Continuing Adventures of Anti-Migraine Lass
I've been working on reducing the amount of light I get exposed to on computers in a bid to limit my chances of migraines. I don't get them very often but they really, really suck.
My best friend uses a Mac, on which I have a profile. I've been tweaking it to make it suck less for me, and Apple is seriously hacking me off with their lack of support for a high-contrast/low-light OS scheme for OSX. If such functionality exists, I have neither been able to find it on my own nor google up anything.
If there's any free or cheap programs out there that let you do this on OSX, lemme know. I did turn up a few programs that give you better control over the brightness/contrast of the monitor. Just nothing relevant to.
In other news, my newest pet peeve -- I think I will love it and pet it and name it George -- is text boxes with the background colour hard-coded when the text colour that goes over it ISN'T. Because let me tell you, white-on-white is just a little frustrating to read.
See, my OS theme, Windows Classic w/ High Contrast Black, dictates white-on-black. Which, bizarrely, is what Firefox uses for text and search boxes over whatever you define as your preferred colours in Firefox itself. Which is its own, related but separate fail that I am not going to really discuss this second.
So, anyhow, if you define a background that is white or very light, I get white-on-white. End result? I get to select the text to check to make sure I haven't fat-fingered whatever I'm typing, or I have to zap the page with my javascript bookmarklet that gives me a black background on green text. And, frankly, I shouldn't have to use that thing for BASIC FUNCTIONALITY.
I mean, really, I'm at peace with the fact that most people can deal with bright screens and that they design with a lot of white. But for fucking fuck's sake, if you're going to define a background colour, then define a goddamned text colour as well.
It's really just good sense. And I'll hate you a lot less.
(And on a hilariously ironic note, it turns out that tropo-purple has a nasty case of this very problem on the entry page. Am now off to report that properly. Thank god for Dreamwidth being so committed to accessibility and usability!)
My best friend uses a Mac, on which I have a profile. I've been tweaking it to make it suck less for me, and Apple is seriously hacking me off with their lack of support for a high-contrast/low-light OS scheme for OSX. If such functionality exists, I have neither been able to find it on my own nor google up anything.
If there's any free or cheap programs out there that let you do this on OSX, lemme know. I did turn up a few programs that give you better control over the brightness/contrast of the monitor. Just nothing relevant to.
In other news, my newest pet peeve -- I think I will love it and pet it and name it George -- is text boxes with the background colour hard-coded when the text colour that goes over it ISN'T. Because let me tell you, white-on-white is just a little frustrating to read.
See, my OS theme, Windows Classic w/ High Contrast Black, dictates white-on-black. Which, bizarrely, is what Firefox uses for text and search boxes over whatever you define as your preferred colours in Firefox itself. Which is its own, related but separate fail that I am not going to really discuss this second.
So, anyhow, if you define a background that is white or very light, I get white-on-white. End result? I get to select the text to check to make sure I haven't fat-fingered whatever I'm typing, or I have to zap the page with my javascript bookmarklet that gives me a black background on green text. And, frankly, I shouldn't have to use that thing for BASIC FUNCTIONALITY.
I mean, really, I'm at peace with the fact that most people can deal with bright screens and that they design with a lot of white. But for fucking fuck's sake, if you're going to define a background colour, then define a goddamned text colour as well.
It's really just good sense. And I'll hate you a lot less.
(And on a hilariously ironic note, it turns out that tropo-purple has a nasty case of this very problem on the entry page. Am now off to report that properly. Thank god for Dreamwidth being so committed to accessibility and usability!)