Does Anyone Use Alternate Sylesheets?
When I first created my web design website, I added two stylesheets - a printer friendly and a low-vision friendly. They’re totally ugly, but I wanted to stick with function, not beauty.
I noticed the other day on campus that students stop to read flyers with color photos. They skip right over the plain font flyers, or even the ones with pictures printed in black and white. I guess a picture really does tell a thousand words.
When designing my website I wanted to steer away from a cluttered image-filled look, to a nice clean soft-colored site. After looking at it yesterday, I decided the colors actually look old, like they’ve been yellowed from the sun.
Anyway, I found some sites (listed below) that let you change the page style, but not all of them do it for accessibility features. In fact most of them seem to do it just for fun. Maybe Jenn doesn’t like to have fun? All work and no play makes Jenn… you know the rest.
By the way… DON’T click your back button if you want to change the style back. Just choose a different style (probably “default”) from the page you’re on!
Stage 38 (my website)
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Carmel College
MVA Resource Guide
Romance at Cambridge
Elena of Valhalla
My question is… are alternate screen stylesheets useless?
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Hey, I don't want this picture. What gives?
Can’t say that I have ever felt a need to use this. I suppose the “yellow text on blue background” could be useful for the sight impaired since it is supposed to be the easiest for them to read. I prefer to let the text size be determined by the browser / operating system. I do like the idea of stylesheets for printing and for mobile browsing (which I do quite a bit).
Right, stylesheets for accessiblity make sense. But they’re so rarely used that people probably don’t even know about them.
Yes, I love print stylesheets. I hate it when I press print and the website’s entire color-header prints on my page. Background images anyone?