UI Request to darken text

Can you please either provide a means to control the colors in the BB interface or at least darken the light gray text on white you are currently using? Some of us have eyesight problems and the current colors are difficult ro see. I would urge you to read Color | Apple Developer Documentation for guidance. Apple practically invented UI and knows a few things about how UI should look.

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It’s unsupported, but you can edit the CSS if you’re familiar with dev, which I suspect you might be based on you linking to that doc.

You’d want to replace the #777 in the screenshot with #000 in the file /usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/bbctrl-*.egg/bbctrl/http/index.html

Just beware, that change will be lost on every firmware update, so you’ll have to redo it.

And if you’re not scared away yet, this diff contains some other mods I use on that file…
bb_index.html.patch.txt (1.1 KB)

…And for any web developers following along. the WCAG standards are a good starting point for accessible colors. The current #777 on #F6F6F6 fails the built in chrome dev tools contrast test.

Make your website more readable  |  Chrome DevTools  |  Chrome for Developers

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Yes, I was aware of doing it that way and had already made some changes to the CSS. My post was more about the benefit it would bring to others who have difficulty seeing and are not tech-savvy enough to hack code.

I was not aware of the Chrome contrast test, good point!

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