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Is there an Aero High Contrast Theme available?
Hello all, long time reader, first time poster. Have found much valuable information on this forum. But this one eludes me.
Simply, I would like a High Contrast Theme for Windows 7 and retain the Aero features and that does not require the Classic theme foundation. Can anyone provide a source to download a good theme? Free would be a bonus, but I would pay for something that did the job.
I have read elsewhere in some forum posts that Aero provides fewer customization options than Classic, and requires work-around programming to achieve certain results. I would also be interested in a good tutorial on the subject.
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My vision has gotten to the point where white backgrounds are blinding, and even full black text is very difficult to read. This started happening right about the time where the trend with websites was to use both dark and light grey color text over white backgrounds. Just my luck. What works best for me is the color inversion style.
For the most part, the built in HC theme in W7 works well, but even that could use improvement. I understand there's only so much the OS can do and the rest depends on the way various desktop applications, browsers and websites are built. It an be frustrating at times. For example, with Chrome, I do use a HC extension that has several options I can apply to specific sites. But some sites are programmed to not respond to the extension - one being Google itself. The homepage and search results work fine, but most of the other google pages, like Chrome settings, and even Gmail don't.
Still, I would expect desktop applications to be more consistent. In some, the menu bar drop downs show just a white background, and may show the text on rollover if I'm lucky. Then there are images, both in apps and on the web. I don't know why these themes can't ignore the images and leave them as is, but they attempt to invert the colors in the images.
I guess I shouldn't complain too much. Accessibility has come a long way since the early days, and before I had problems I didn't think too much about it myself as a web developer. I'm not sure if Windows 8 provides more options in this area, but I'd rather stick with 7 for now.