chrisboyle / sgtpuzzles

Android port of Simon Tatham's Puzzles
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Accessibility - Option to bold mistakes (for greyscale) #644

Open quasijem opened 7 months ago

quasijem commented 7 months ago

I've recently started using my phone in greyscale mode, and I've found several of the puzzles are harder to read and notice mistakes in when this is turned on. This is mostly a problem with games that have numbers or lines in them, as the thin red is rendered as a hard-to-see dark grey.

I was hoping for an option in display settings to draw mistakes (at least for lines/numbers) in bold. This could also apply to other highlighting, such as in Dominosia. Alternatively, there could be an option for the red to be a slightly lighter shade, as it is in Bridges; outlines for the number boxes, as in Range; or highlighting the background of the number, as in Train Tracks. Changing the colour seems necessary for red errors shown against a black background, such as in Mosaic and Unruly, and for the dark-red duplicate dominoes in Dominosia.

I think that the other places errors are shown are clear enough:

I've attached a screenshot of several greyscale-rendered puzzles, all containing errors of which most are difficult to read:

puzzle-screenshot-greyscale