The overlay scrollbar can be unusable to people with color blindness/bad eye sight
Bug #782754 reported by
sorin7486
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #934123: [FFe] Low visibility impaired users can't easily disable overlay scrollbars.
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| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| overlay-scrollbar |
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| overlay-scrollbar (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: overlay-scrollbar
Depending on the color scheme the cursor line that shows the location in a document can be really hard to see for some people. Because of this the scroll is unusable(in big documents) because one has to hover over that line in order for the scroll to appear. I ran into this problem today and I found it somewhat troublesome (first time I have an accessibility problem).
A simple solution would be to have the scroll appear when hovering over the right margin of the window (regardless whether the tiny line is there or not). This should be an improvement for everybody since you get a bigger target and you don't have to look for a small line (which might not be that easy to spot even with perfect eye sight).
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| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in overlay-scrollbar (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
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| Bob Bib (bobbib) wrote | #2 |
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| Christian Giordano (nuthinking) wrote | #3 |
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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.