High Contrast for new NXT navigation

Dariel Dixon

With the new navigation for NXT getting ready to roll out, are there any plans for accessibility options for users with vision issues? The new navigation is extremely low contrast and has very little color at all. I know there was a discussion about it last year about this here, but wanted to see if anything had changed since then, as the new navigation may increase the issue.

Spring Velazquez

@Dariel Dixon I sincerely hope so. Working in a brightly lit office has me squinting for hours most days. I tried using a filter screen over my monitors but with dual monitors it just doesn't work well with this. It's actually not great even with one!

Austen Brown

@Dariel Dixon - If you haven't already make sure to add this to the RE Idea Bank and share a link so we can show support through voting:

Dariel Dixon

That only makes sense @Austen Brown! I'm going to steal @Tatyana Leifman's recent Idea to promote this issue.

Aldera Chisholm

@Spring Velazquez This is a smidge off-topic, but this is an add-on desktop app I discovered when I had a bad concussion. It's called F.Lux and you can take out a lot of the blue from display using their settings. Achieves the same results as the screens, but more personalized!

Spring Velazquez

@Aldera Chisholm I'll have to check that out - thank you!

Austen Brown

@Dariel Dixon - @Sunshine Reinken Watson posted a couple solutions to change the background color of RE NXT to the FB Group. Copying her post here as well. https://www.facebook.com/groups/REUserGroup/posts/10161127435156219/

Blinded by the new colors in web view?

Microsoft Edge browser: Go to Settings and search for "colors." Scroll down to "Page Colors" and try out some of the options. Make sure the toggle is turned off for "Only apply to page colors when high contrast themes are on." I am trying out the "Dusk" option (first screenshot).

Firefox browser: Set your computer's main settings to dark mode (Settings, search for "dark mode" and follow the results to set it). In Firefox, go to Settings and search for "manage colors." Click the "Manage Colors" button. Check the box next to "Use system colors" and toggle "Override the colors..." to "Always." (second screenshot)

These solutions may be annoying if you don't want other sites to appear using the different modes, but it is better than nothing. You might want to use a specific alternate browser just for RE NXT (i.e. use Chrome by default and Edge for RE NXT work). Or play around with your system setting's accessibility contrast themes.

Please comment below if you have found another solution using another browser, system settings, or something else. None of this would be necessary if web view had a dark mode option, so please go vote for this idea: https://renxt.ideas.aha.io/ideas/RENXT-I-7654

Example of what this looks like.