Comment 15 for bug 231953

Writer no longer overrides the displayed document background and font colours with a Windows High Contrast Theme's colours. This is with LibreOffice v4.1.2.3 installed on Windows 7 SP1 x64.

Previous versions of LibreOffice Writer (4.0 and below) correctly override the background and font colours of any document with those set in a Windows High Contrast colour theme. In LibreOffice 4.1 this is no longer the case. I have tested an older version of LibreOffice Writer, v3.5.5.3, and this version does indeed override the document background and font colours as expected with those from the theme.

This functionality is very important for me, as I have a light sensitivity problem with my vision called Visual Stress or Meares-Irlen Syndrome, which means (in my case) I need a black background and a very specific font colour (RGB value) in order to read comfortably. In Windows I use a High Contrast colour theme with these colours, and most windows applications honour them.

LibreOffice settings:
Under Options-LibreOffice-Accessibility under "Options for High Contrast appearance" - I have all the options ticked.

Under Options-LibreOffice-Appearance-Custom Colors

- version v4.1.2.3: Automatic document background colour is "white" - (seriously bad for people with Visual Stress/Mearles-Irlen Syndome). It should be "black" as per my High Contrast theme background.
- version v3.5.5.3: Automatic document background colour is "black" as expected, as per my Windows High Contrast theme.

- version v4.1.2.3: Automatic document font colour is "black". It should be the colour as per my High Contrast theme's font colour (mine is a specific green RGB value which needs to be precise. None of the custom colours in the drop down list fulfill my needs).

- version v3.5.5.3: Automatic document font colour is the same as from my Windows High Contrast theme.

To test this, set Windows 7 to High Contrast mode through the Ease of Access Centre and select either high contrast themes #1 or #2 (I have my own custom high contrast colour theme set up, but those will suffice for the test). Then start up LibreOffice Writer 4.1 and you will see that even with all the Accessibilty options for High Contrast ticked, all documents still have a white background and black text. Try again with Writer v3.5.5.3 and it will honour the High Contrast Theme's colours by overriding the displayed document colours with them.

Please fix this very important accessibility bug for folk with visual impairments e.g. visual stress or mearles-irlen syndrome where colour is very important.

Thanks