Comment 21 for bug 231953

@bfoman: Thanks for the heads up on those mailing lists. I wasn't aware of the UX-Advice and Accessibility mailing lists. I will most likely post to them in due course. UI developers need to be aware of these accessibility issues for visually impaired users.

Default UI colours are fine, as long as two things are taken into consideration.

1. Enabling overriding UI colours with the underlying Accessibility theme of the host operating system, if one is active. LibreOffice has done this well in the past. Now it is broken in this respect.

2. Enabling visually impaired users to customise to UI look and colours as much as possible. In the specific case of visual stress/irlen syndrome, being able to customise colours (especially background and text colours) to precise RGB values is very important.

Hard coding a white background in a UI is one of the worst things a UI developer can do for those with Visual Stress.