New to HPFGU and an OT question.

[Steve]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Emeline Moore"
<emelinemoore at m...> wrote:
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> ...edited..
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> –Emeline
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> PS, I have sort of an off topic query, does anyone have any tricks 
> for someone who has low vision problems? The main HPFGU group is 
> very hard on my eyes; I've tried the Internet Explorer
> accessibility options to get rid of the lavender background but the 
> fonts and sizes seem to change (from Arial to Times New Roman and 
> anywhere from 8 pt to 12 pt font) whenever I change the page.
> It's very frustrating on such a high volume list.

Hi Emeline,

I use Mozilla, but to help you out I check my version of Internet
Explorer 5.5 (I think the latest is 6.x). If you go to [Tools]
[Internet Options] [Accessability] and put a check mark in '[] Ignore
colors specified on webpages', that should get rid of the background
colors and default to black and white, although LINK colors will
probably still be set to blue to highlight them. 

Yahoo doesn't force any fonts on you; it uses your default
proportional/variable width font (usually Arial, Tahoma, or similar)
and the messages in Yahoo groups are your default fixed width font
(usually MS-SanSerif, Courier, or Courier New). Sadly, the new web
browsers whether Mozilla, Netscape, or Microsoft no longer give you a
complete list of fonts to choose from, so you can pick Courier New,
but you can't pick Courier New Bold which actually is a separate font.

For your porportional font, which is used to read the list of topics,
try using a bold font like Arial Black or Arial Rounded MT Bold (which
is a very common font and you are likely to have it) that should at
least make that part easier. 

For reading messages, the best you can do is select [View] [Text Size]
and [Large] or [Larger] from the menu. 

I may be able to find a way to improve the monospace or fixed width
fonts by making them bolder. Give me some time to work on it. I have a
disk that has 3,000 fonts on it, and there might be a bold faced fixed
width font available. 

Hope that helps.

bboy_mn