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User Style sheets
From Digital Publishing Interest Group
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User-Controlled Style Override Use Cases
Purpose: The goal of this document is to outline the use-cases where a user would want to over-ride or augment the user-agent and site-specific stylesheets.
Disabilities and their needs:
Visually Impaired
- Increase font size of body content
- Highlight Menu Options
- Identify menu items and body content to allow for text-to-speech
- Text provided for image-based menus
- Consideration for non-mouse non-touch screen navigation
Dyslexia
- Ability to over-ride readable fonts (not icon fonts)
- Ability tho make more space between lines, between words
- Ability to color syllabes in words with contrasted colors
Color Blind
- Ability to change background & font colors to increase visibility
Specific to Reading/Long-form
- Ability to customize link/reference styling to make more obvious.
- Target and Relative font size (all fonts +2em VS all fonts pegged at 36px)
Preferred Reading Mode
- Users may have typographic or general layout preferences and should be able to apply them (eg http://typecast.com/blog/readable-fluid-type-with-basic-css-smarts)
- Inverted (eg. white on black) or Terminal (eg. white on green)