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As the old post has been removed, can i ask if the moderators have anything to say regarding a bespoke accessibility mode to view the forum? I made several suggestions , including using an alternative colour mode (buff/cream instead of white?) Or an option to increase the size of text?

I strongly think that this should be considered, or a statement on the technical aspect of making those changes, in lieu of no comment being made as of yet

For the avoidance of doubt for everyone, no posts from the old feedback thread have been removed completely. We started a new thread as over time it had built up a lot of things many of which have already been implemented now. But internally we still have access to all the previous suggestions that were made so people do not need to worry about raising them again as nothing was lost. Unless it was something we have said we wouldn't do for a certain reason, then it is safe to assume anything suggested previously remains on our own big list of things to look at when possible.

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For this one specifically though, our actual aim around accessibility at the moment is a bit wider. Rather than focus on an alternative theme initially, we'd want to improve overall accessibility on the main themes first to address outstanding contrast, colour and size issues as well as difficult to read page structure with the aim of making it at least WCAG 2.2 Level AA compliant. So that then even the base experience is as open as possible to everyone and has the widest compatibility with a user's own browser, operating system or external tooling. Once we have the main themes to this point, then we may look at alternative colours or themes if there are still holes we were not able to cover.

There is no one date or big bang that we'll do this though as most of this is more of an ongoing process with other feature work. Every time we update anything to do with the styling and templates of the forum we're looking at parts we can improve here at the same time and we'll continue to do this. There are some things that will require more involved direct technical reworking to make work within the forum software, particularly when it comes to any user-supplied content - Such as alt tags on images and embedded video players like YouTube - but we'll implement anything else we can as early as possible.