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Gnome has a high contrast mode and UI font size options. What do custom themes add for accessibility?



Is that high contrast mode, their dark mode colors, and their font choice supposed to work for everyone?


...Changing the default fonts is definitely supported.


> ...Changing the default fonts is definitely supported.

Not for the GNOME shell, unless you're editing the relevant CSS files in /usr/share/themes or installing themes that do so. And if you do end up doing that, you get to see issues like this

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/2331

And I wouldn't be surprised if changing fonts became an unsupported feature in future releases because apparently, it was just a hack and not well supported and didn't really work like themes. Apparently, gnome-tweak-tool is an unsupported tool as well.


The high-contrast mode does not accommodate for all people with colorblindness. I knew a number of people in Libera who were appalled when they updated to GNOME 40 and could no longer theme the shell to be actually visible.




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