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Bug 11964

Summary:	Help slams colours in several places
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Tod Creasey <Tod_Creasey>
Component:	User Assistance	Assignee:	Dorian Birsan <birsan>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	Keywords:	accessibility
Version:	2.0
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 2000
Whiteboard:

Description Tod Creasey

2002-03-20 13:44:23 EST

Help has hardcoded colours and fonts in several places. This will cause us to 
fail section 508 1194.21 g)

(g) Applications shall not override user selected contrast and color selections 
and other individual display attributes. 

However as IE also fails this one this means that we likely don't have to be 
concerned.


1) In the help contents the Bookshelf bar does not use the system, colours - it 
is always white on blue
2) The Bookshelf title is invisible if the text colour in white (like in High 
Contrast Black)
3) The widget for the tree uses a fixed size font - it does not become extra 
large when the windows settings are High Contrast White Extra Large
4) All help has a white background and black text. However IE has the same 
issue so it might not be our problem.
5) Search view does not respect large font settings
6) All tabs use a small font and should us a n appropriate system font

Comment 1 Dorian Birsan

2002-03-20 13:49:46 EST

We are working on a completely redesigned help ui that picks up the system 
colours (and also has a different L&F).
It will be in a driver as soon as it gets ported on some of the other browsers 
(Mozilla, etc.)

Comment 2 Dorian Birsan

2002-03-20 13:52:11 EST

BTW, we have not closed on the font issue. 
The design was done with Tahoma 8pts, but your observations are valid, and we 
should think about picking up system settings (perhaps adjusted by a certain 
proportion).

Comment 3 Dorian Birsan

2002-04-02 16:54:57 EST

I will close this, as colour problems are fixed, and opened #12654 to track the 
font issues.