The lenses in both of my eyes began to become cloudy a few months after retinal reattachment surgery. A high contrast setting initially helped me see through the "snow," but as the retinal tearing progressed, and the blood settled out of my way, I needed low contrast and dim light so less light would reflect onto sections of my retina. The tears were small initially but caused a "black snowstorm" of blood cells blocking my view. Retinal tears (torn away from the back of the eye) developed in both eyes. I blocked all websites that place ads within the text of articles, or that required hitting a button to "page" between screens. Then, as my symptoms progressed, I began having a lot of difficulties distinguishing ads from articles. Initially, inflammation changed the shape of my eyes and caused images to be out-of-focus. Glare and bright whites seems to be the biggest problem for those with low vision disorders like mine.Īfter a brain injury, I had continually evolving difficulties with eyesight. It then gives you a slider for those sites to simply lower the contrast on the white page. It works better than anything I've tried yet, but still has some problems with a random completely incompatible website now and then. It has various one-click settings to apply HC black to websites, as well as a "Smart Invert images" and "Keep images normal" setting. Color or profile choices for individual users would be a great option.Īs far as web browsing goes, I use a wonderful little extension for Chrome and Opera called Deluminate. If the text and UI are black with light text, then I have no problems, otherwise I have to find a way to make the UI's larger and more legible to compensate for glare. I'm also an avid gamer, and this presents even more problems, as I need to switch from HC back to a regular theme to run games properly and at the correct resolution.
Otherwise I can't focus or see anything sue to the glare of a white or light background. I use high contrast black for most of my work on the PC, using white text or bright cyan.
Sometimes this even makes it tough for us to spot the mouse much less text, even using an inverted pointer type. There are some screens on some programs where there is so much white, all we see is glare. It all had to do with the amount of bright white light. The research is there as well if you research low vision disorders. Suffering from cataracts myself, I can assure you from myself, as well as others, that white or very light text on black is much more efficient for us. Other problem is white space when you use high contrast, you should increase the space between features, like borders, decorations, icons, etc.įinally, high contrast is good, but exactly opposites are bad, changing the typical black over white to the opposite is a terrible idea and I've seen that a few times. Increasing the font, is usually a better solution, but again, some fonts don't scale well. To that you may think that you can increase the size of the fonts or decrease resolution well, that works, kinda, lowering the resolution, usually is in big steps, and is common to loose big parts of the interface outside the window and the scrolling back and forth doesn't help. Yes, the high contrast works very well, the problem is that many interfaces are poorly designed and the high contrast is just too little help to overcome the design flaws and sometimes works against the user.Ī typical problem is the font used for menus and texts, is very common that the font used is not really good for screen and that it was designed for printing, or the size is too small.
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