Adjust colors according to user settings
Customizing colors of text, backgrounds, and images can make it easier for users with low vision or colorblindness to read and understand a web page.
Discussion by Disabilities
Customizing colors of text, backgrounds, and images can make it easier for users with low vision or colorblindness to read and understand a web page.
Existing Products
Please note that these products are not necessarily endorsed by RtF, but represent the range of available options.
Open Source and free
These products are free and their source code may be modified with few restrictions.
- AccessiBar Extension(link is external) – Mozdev, Edan Kemelman
- Amaya(link is external) – W3C
- ATbar(link is external) – ATbar, University of Southampton
- CLC Star(link is external) – CLC (Charles Chen)
- Firefox Accessibility Extension(link is external) – Illinois Center for IT Accessibility
- Web Access Gateway(link is external) – U.of Cambridge, Silas Brown
Free, not necessarily open source
These products are free to use, but may have strict restrictions on viewing and modifying source code.
- Surf Right Toolbar(link is external) – Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB)
- Web Accessibility Toolbar(link is external) – Vision Australia
Related Research and Papers
- Dyslexia, eLearning and eSkills, (Pgs 84-90) ‘Supporting Dyslexic Adults in Higher Education’(link is external) – University of Southampton – Draffan, E.A. (2012)
- Southampton Accessibility Tools presented at 8th International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility(link is external) – University of Southampton – Wald, M., Draffan, E.A., Skuse, S., Newman, R. and Phethean, C. (2011)
- Accomodating color blind computer users(link is external)- Luke Jefferson, Richard Harvey
- Web access for elderly citizens(link is external)- Vicki L. Hanson
- Personalization of user accessibility options(link is external)- II Robert E. Sinclair, Gilma Annuska Perkins, Michael Edward Dulac Winser, Ramkumar Subramanian, Paul Reid
- How People with Low Vision Access Computing Devices: Understanding Challenges and Opportunities(link is external)- Sarit Felicia Anais Szpiro, Shafeka Hashash, Yuhang Zhao, Shiri Azenkot