Comment 18 for bug 231953

> Potential duplicate of bug 64842.
Yes, this does look like a potential duplicate. But since bug 64842 was filed against Ubuntu and not Windows, I wouldn't be sure that the fix for that one would fix the similar problem on windows. The offending code for each OS may be slightly different.

I've read the comment for change Ia42ca7882f0d2dd1f2a304db5e4b5aaba23244fc. This change introduces a serious accessibility flaw for folk with a vision disability. I can no longer use later versions of LibreOffice because of this. As a developer myself, I would have said that a better fix for the problem would have been to correctly detect when Open Office / LibreOffice has been set to work in accessibility mode and when so, for the displayed document colours to inherit from the underlying high-contrast theme accordingly. When LibreOffice is not in set in accessibility mode, then by all means default to other more appropriate display colours for the document.

It appears the developer of the patch may misunderstand why (at least in Windows) the High-Contrast themes exist and how visually impaired people like myself benefit from them.

Various partially sighted or blind people and folk with other visual impairments benefit from a custom text foreground and page background colours. Setting the host OS to a high-contrast accessibility theme should trigger all applications to inherit that theme. There are of course some offending applications in Windows that don't this, but most do. Open Office / LibreOffice has been particularly good at this in the past - and has been especially useful to people with a vision disability with it's ability to adapt to document display colours accordingly when accessibility is set to on (this is now broken). This has been singly the biggest winning feature for which why I choose OpenOffice/LibreOffice over Word.

I suffer from a light sensitivity disorder called Visual Stress for which white / light backgrounds on paper and computer screens cause considerable discomfort and migraines. This disorder affects 15 - 20 percent of the population at varied levels of severity from very mild to extreme. Is is also known as Meares-Irlen Syndrome or just Irlen Syndrome. Colour is of extreme importance for these people to be able to see and read comfortably. We rely on high-contrast OS themes to get around the problem to some extent. White background documents and UIs cause these people a multitude of debilitating symptoms including migraines, not being able to think straight, loss of some co-ordination, irritability, nausea and quite a few others - different for each individual.

Please honour high-contrast themes in Windows. They are there for a reason.

In sort, please restore LibreOffice's ability to adhere a document's displayed colours to the underlying high-contrast theme, when the applicable accessibility settings have been set in the application's preferences.