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