Blog: accessibility tools improving life for those with little to no accessibility issues

[Mikaela]

Someone was curious about how my Windows 10 is looking and I listed what I have enabled:

• disable animations, transparency, scrollbar hiding
  • Animations may be a real accessibility issue I have for my focusing, while transparency is disabled purely for performance.
• made pointer/cursor always reverse colour from whatever it is on
• text pointer or whatever "Text cursor ease of access in Windows"
  • minimum size so it's helpful (when it works) and won't distract me from actual typing
• mono audio
  • useful when listening to things with a single earbud or right now my right ear has some issue and pain so I am using it as intended instead of it just being nice

Also list the iOS and Android situations. Those have similar options for performance and I love mono audio there (when staying aware of environment). I wonder if it would also be ok to point to Chrono Trigger Final Battle for stereo test, as it has that lovely moving between channels that demonstrates the case so well.

I think this is also the place to advertise subtitles for deaf or hard of hearing (TV), which help me focus on the text, and anecdotes online hint on them also helping with language learning or children to learn to read.

Oh and while controversial, I guess OpenDyslexic belongs to this category as well. I don't have dyslexia, but I feel it increases my reading speed, but that may be more of paragraph spaces or something like that.

(Am I little to no accessibility issues after all, or will this help how something may be made more friendly for autistic person?)

[Mikaela]

Oh, additionally dark modes/themes (special mention to Chromium for having it in about:flags) and playing animations (gifs) only once (special award to Vivaldi for having it behind two clicks, and/while Firefox hides it within about:config)

[Mikaela]

Research says that light themes are more healthy for eyes.

However I start having floaters when staring a light screen too long and on a migraine day, please tell my migraine (symptoms include nausea, in addition to bad headache, should it be left untreated) and light sensitivity that...

[Mikaela]

iOS also hides great accessibility tools such as:

• https://conversation.sevarg.net/t/how-your-led-lights-and-screens-are-killing-you/786/35?u=aminda - colour filter night mode
• more constract
• background noise generator (think of Blanket on Linux)
• decrease motion
• decrease transparency
• decrease white point
• zoom (which has the option of decreasing brightness further)