Subtitle background (or lack thereof)

[J. P. Gilliver]

Watching LNOTP, waiting for the party to start; the last piece of
(fairly) serious music has in-vision subtitles (I presume it's not in
English).

They are of the white-text-on-a-thin-black-outline type.

WHEN is somebody going to finally admit that those DON'T WORK, if
there's a varied background image? The bits over the lighter parts of
the image are hard to read. Yes, I realise they're technically very
clever, making the black cutout slightly outside the lettering. (And no,
there's nothing wrong with my telly.) Oh, the text telling me what the
next piece is, is similarly hard to read, for the same reason.

I've got the normal SD subtitles on - we're now in between pieces, so
the commentators are chatting - and those (with their solid black
background strips) are _so_ much easier to read.

[Brian Gaff]

I never knew about his, being very much blind these days, but its rather
like when we used to get paper magazine articles with the text written
across bits of a picture in very low contrast colours. Nobody could read
those either.
Brian
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Watching LNOTP, waiting for the party to start; the last piece of (fairly)
serious music has in-vision subtitles (I presume it's not in English).
They are of the white-text-on-a-thin-black-outline type.
WHEN is somebody going to finally admit that those DON'T WORK, if there's
a varied background image? The bits over the lighter parts of the image
are hard to read. Yes, I realise they're technically very clever, making
the black cutout slightly outside the lettering. (And no, there's nothing
wrong with my telly.) Oh, the text telling me what the next piece is, is
similarly hard to read, for the same reason.
I've got the normal SD subtitles on - we're now in between pieces, so the
commentators are chatting - and those (with their solid black background
strips) are _so_ much easier to read.
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[JMB99]

Post by Brian Gaff
I never knew about his, being very much blind these days, but its rather
like when we used to get paper magazine articles with the text written
across bits of a picture in very low contrast colours. Nobody could read
those either.

Still happens, it is considered artistic!

Morrisons had a range of ready meals with yellow text on a light green
background. Many other ready meals have other unreadable instructions.

[Brian Gaff]

I know, we blind now have to use an app to read the bar code, and if we are
lucky there will be info on that as well.
Brian
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Post by JMB99

Post by Brian Gaff
I never knew about his, being very much blind these days, but its rather
like when we used to get paper magazine articles with the text written
across bits of a picture in very low contrast colours. Nobody could read
those either.

Still happens, it is considered artistic!
Morrisons had a range of ready meals with yellow text on a light green
background. Many other ready meals have other unreadable instructions.

[Liz Tuddenham]

Post by JMB99

Post by Brian Gaff
I never knew about his, being very much blind these days, but its rather
like when we used to get paper magazine articles with the text written
across bits of a picture in very low contrast colours. Nobody could read
those either.

Still happens, it is considered artistic!
Morrisons had a range of ready meals with yellow text on a light green
background. Many other ready meals have other unreadable instructions.

A few years ago I needed to look up the e-mail address of someone at a
nearby arts-based educational establishment. Their website was
impossible to read, with yellow lettering on a white beckground and I
eventually derived the information I needed by downloading the source
code and reading it from there..

In my e-mail I mentioned how dreadful the website was and I hoped the
extablishment would use it as a shining example to the students of how
NOT to write a website. Unknown to me, they had recently started a
website design department and that website had been written by the head
of department.

My contact circulated my e-mail to the students and staff, where it
apparently caused a certain amount of amusement.

[J. P. Gilliver]

In message <1qgwbzz.13uyqz1161ugj6N%***@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid> at
Mon, 11 Sep 2023 14:03:14, Liz Tuddenham
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Post by Liz Tuddenham
A few years ago I needed to look up the e-mail address of someone at a
nearby arts-based educational establishment. Their website was
impossible to read, with yellow lettering on a white beckground and I
eventually derived the information I needed by downloading the source
code and reading it from there..

Sometimes just dragging the mouse over the relevant part of the page
will highlight it in a more legible combination, or at least let you
copy and paste it to something. Though to do so you need to know which
_is_ the relevant part of the page, of course.

Post by Liz Tuddenham
In my e-mail I mentioned how dreadful the website was and I hoped the
extablishment would use it as a shining example to the students of how
NOT to write a website. Unknown to me, they had recently started a
website design department and that website had been written by the head
of department.
My contact circulated my e-mail to the students and staff, where it
apparently caused a certain amount of amusement.

What fun!

[JMB99]

Post by Liz Tuddenham
A few years ago I needed to look up the e-mail address of someone at a
nearby arts-based educational establishment. Their website was
impossible to read, with yellow lettering on a white beckground and I
eventually derived the information I needed by downloading the source
code and reading it from there..

Several times, the only way that I have been able to read some text on a
website has been to highlight it with the mouse.

[tony sayer]

Post by Liz Tuddenham

Post by JMB99

Post by Brian Gaff
I never knew about his, being very much blind these days, but its rather
like when we used to get paper magazine articles with the text written
across bits of a picture in very low contrast colours. Nobody could read
those either.

Still happens, it is considered artistic!
Morrisons had a range of ready meals with yellow text on a light green
background. Many other ready meals have other unreadable instructions.

A few years ago I needed to look up the e-mail address of someone at a
nearby arts-based educational establishment. Their website was
impossible to read, with yellow lettering on a white beckground and I
eventually derived the information I needed by downloading the source
code and reading it from there..
In my e-mail I mentioned how dreadful the website was and I hoped the
extablishment would use it as a shining example to the students of how
NOT to write a website. Unknown to me, they had recently started a
website design department and that website had been written by the head
of department.
My contact circulated my e-mail to the students and staff, where it
apparently caused a certain amount of amusement.

Glad to hear it! Too many webshites are like that, bloody unreadable!..

[Brian Gaff]

Yes indeed, strangely enough for a screenreader the colour seldom matters at
all, its keeping the headings and tab order of links and not labelling
buttons as links and vice versa that matters to us. I hate them saying click
the red triangle to the right, when you find its zillions of tabs away and
just labelled link or button or its a picture no alt tag saying red triangle
on it. It takes but a few seconds to do this when writing the page after
all.
Brian
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Post by Liz Tuddenham

Post by JMB99

Post by Brian Gaff
I never knew about his, being very much blind these days, but its rather
like when we used to get paper magazine articles with the text written
across bits of a picture in very low contrast colours. Nobody could read
those either.

Still happens, it is considered artistic!
Morrisons had a range of ready meals with yellow text on a light green
background. Many other ready meals have other unreadable instructions.

A few years ago I needed to look up the e-mail address of someone at a
nearby arts-based educational establishment. Their website was
impossible to read, with yellow lettering on a white beckground and I
eventually derived the information I needed by downloading the source
code and reading it from there..
In my e-mail I mentioned how dreadful the website was and I hoped the
extablishment would use it as a shining example to the students of how
NOT to write a website. Unknown to me, they had recently started a
website design department and that website had been written by the head
of department.
My contact circulated my e-mail to the students and staff, where it
apparently caused a certain amount of amusement.

Glad to hear it! Too many webshites are like that, bloody unreadable!..
--
Tony Sayer
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a keyboard, and he will reveal himself.

[J. P. Gilliver]

Post by Brian Gaff
Yes indeed, strangely enough for a screenreader the colour seldom matters at
all, its keeping the headings and tab order of links and not labelling
buttons as links and vice versa that matters to us. I hate them saying click
the red triangle to the right, when you find its zillions of tabs away and
just labelled link or button or its a picture no alt tag saying red triangle
on it. It takes but a few seconds to do this when writing the page after
all.
Brian

In theory, you can I think report them - if American, anyway - under the
Americans with Disabilities act (or some such name); I think we may even
have something similar. In practice, it's going to be far too much
trouble (especially here) - the problem usually not being the
illegality, but actually getting some person to understand what the
problem actually _is_.